Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition..

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness..

Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette -throw "Roderick Random" into the closet -put "The In….

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in..

Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot..

Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have b….

Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer..

An oyster may be crossed in love..

I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.

It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men..

Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest..

If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!.

It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest..

I loved him for himself alone..

I own the soft impeachment..

He is the very pineapple of politeness..

An aspersion upon my parts of speech!.

Easy writing's curst hard reading..

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts..

Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!.

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine..