The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.

If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses

Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.