Great Throughts Treasury

"Those that vow the most are the least sincere."

"Thro' all the drama "

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

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

"We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people, our retrospection will be all to the future."

"When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension."

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

"When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword."

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

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

"You had no taste when you married me."

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

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

"A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,?by deeds, not years."

"A night of fretful passion may consume all that thou bast of beauty's gentle bloom; and one distemper'd hour of sordid fear print on thy brow the wrinkles of a year."

"A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing."

"A progeny of learning."

"A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure."

"A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes."

"A wise woman will always let her husband have her way."

"An oyster may be crossed in love! Who says a whale's a bird?--Ha! did you call my love?-- He's here! He's there! He's everywhere! An me! He's nowhere!"

"An oyster may be crossed in love."

"An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance."

"As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile."

"As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won?t be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out."

"Believe not each accusing tongue, as most weak persons do; but still believe that story wrong, which ought not to be true!"

"Believe that story false that ought not to be true."

"Darkness is fled. - Now flowers unfold their beauties to the sun, and blushing, kiss the beam he sends to wake them."

"Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, ? by deeds, not years..."

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

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

"Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition."

"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!"

"For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere."

"For let 'em be clumsy, or let 'em be slim, young or ancient, I care not a feather; so fill a pint bumper quite up to the brim, and let us e'en toast them together."

"Fortune, my friend, I've often thought, is weak, if Art assist her not: so equally all Arts are vain, if Fortune help them not again."

"Had I a heart for falsehood framed. I ne'er could injure you."

"Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth."

"Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word."

"Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette?throw Roderick Random into the closet?put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; there?put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them."

"Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; here's to the widow of fifty; here's to the flaunting extravagant queen; and here's to the housewife that's thrifty. Let the toast pass,? drink to the lass, i'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass."

"Humanity always becomes a conqueror."

"I believe there is no sentiment he has such faith in as that charity begins at home and his, I presume., is of that domestic sort which never stirs abroad at all."

"I know you are laughing in your sleeve."

"I leave my character behind me."

"I loved him for himself alone."

"I ne'er could any lustre see in eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip but where my own did hope to sip."

"I own the soft impeachment."

"I wish, sir, you would practice this without me. I can't stay dying here all night."

"I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman: for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments; but ... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice: then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries: this ... is what I would have a woman know; and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it."