Oh! The roast beef of England, / And old England’s roast beef.

If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts

He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

But pray, Mr Wild, why bitch?

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Adams dealt him so sound a Compliment over his Face with his Fist, that the Blood immediately gushed out of his Nose in a Stream. The Host being unwilling to be outdone in Courtesy, especially...

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I...

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

Never trust the man who hath reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

An amiable weakness.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Such indeed was her image, that neither could Shakespeare describe, nor Hogarth paint, nor Clive act, a fury in higher perfection.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear

A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she laughs, sigh when she sighs. In short, he should be...

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriage, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not the wedding-day, is absolutely fixed on.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.

O! more than Gothic ignorance.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible

He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.

George was a great dunce, but no matter for that: all men do not thrive in the world according to their learning

I am as sober as a judge.

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.

He then bespattered the youth with abundance of that language which passes between country gentleman who embrace opposite sides of the question; with frequent applications to him to salute that part which is generally introduced...

To sun myself in Huncamunca’s eyes.

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.

His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage

Read in order to live.

Since I have dealt in suds, I could never discover more than two reasons for shaving; the one is to get a beard, the other is to get rid of one

An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

And here, I believe, the wit is generally misunderstood. In reality, it lies in desiring another to kiss your a– for having just before threatened to kick his; for I have observed very accurately, that...

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Comfort me by a solemn Assurance, that when the little Parlour in which I sit at this Instant, shall be reduced to a worse furnished Box, I shall be read, with Honour, by those who...

When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough; I’ve done my duty, and I’ve done no more

Conscience – the only incorruptible thing about us

We must eat to live and live to eat

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not...