Some think that people come to a ball to do nothing but dance; whereas everyone knows that the real business of a ball is to look out for a wife, to look after a wife, or to look after someone else's wife.

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Better be killed than frightened to death.

The only infallible rule we know is, that the man who is always talking about being a gentleman never is one.

No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.

The country has its charms-cheapness for one.

It ar'n't that I loves the fox less, but that I loves the 'ound more.