Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

The right honorable 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!

SNEER. But, what the deuce, is the confidante to be mad too?PUFF. To be sure she is. The confidante is always to do whatever her mistress does- weep when she weeps, smile when she smiles,...

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

Never say more than is necessary.