Book: School for scandal

But I wonder how you can keep cheerfulness in the midst of such misery.
- The fact of the matter! Misfortunes I have so many that I can't part with them. But the time will come, and I will be rich and dark.

When the arrow of resentment jagged ingratitude, the injury is doubly dangerous.

His conversation is a pure libel on all his friends.

Be careful: to contradict is the wrong way to be friends.

Heart, confident in our own integrity, it is difficult to understand someone else's deceit.

Prudence, like experience, is not given for nothing.

As for me, Madam, I must confess that wit has no value in my eyes, when it is connected with anger.

The licentiousness with which some people write fiction, truly monstrous.

Sir Oliver, we live in a damn bad world, and the fewer we praise the better.

Sometimes the poor man who hanged on the gallows for all his life has done so much harm, how many of these peddlers of lies, the master of slander and ruining good names.

I don't want to argue about the extent to which the excusable cursing. But in my opinion, it is always shameful. We have vanity, envy, rivalry, and a thousand reason to denigrate each other, but male, to denigrate the other, should have a feminine cowardice.