There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

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

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

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

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

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

Be just before you are generous.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

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

Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

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

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

Its frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You cant assume the responsibility for everything you do or dont do.

Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.

When of a gossiping circle it was asked What are they doing The answer was Swapping lies.

Shes as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales coiners of scandal and clippers of reputation.

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Let everyone regulate his conduct... by the golden rule of doing to others as in similar circumstances we would have them do to us, and the path of duty will be clear before him.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Marriage is the miracle that transforms a kiss from a pleasure into a duty.

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.