Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth; the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that too, with an If. . . . Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If.

I do beseech you- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess , that your wisdom yet From one that so imperfectly conjects Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble Out of his scattering and unsure observance.

The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.

So curses all Eve's daughters of what complexion soever.

Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I; every man to his business.

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school.

A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind!