Better be killed than frightened to death.
No one knows how ungentlemanly he can look, until he has seen himself in a shocking bad hat.
Three things I never lends - my 'oss, my wife, and my name.
The country has its charms-cheapness for one.
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.
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.