We should look long and carefully at ourselves before we pass judgement on others.
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.
A woman always has her revenge ready.
I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged.
I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.
It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death.
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.
Words and deeds are far from being one. Much that is talked about is left undone.
Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn’t rule in love, you know.
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don’t succeed, at least pretend to.
And with his arms crossed he looks pityingly down from his spiritual height on everything that anyone says.
Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.
Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.
To marry a fool is to be no fool.
The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism.
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
We always speak well when we manage to be understood.