Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.
Women are jealous of cigars... they regard them as a strong rival.
Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
Business first; pleasure afterwards.
A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, "Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long."
Vanity is often the unseen spur.
There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.
To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.
We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.
Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?
We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
...the greatest tyrants over women are women.
The best of women are hypocrites.
All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.
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