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„Женщины управляют нами; постараемся же довести их до совершенства: чем более будут они знать, тем совершеннее будем и мы. От развития женского ума зависит и мужская мудрость.“

„Победа над самим собой — единственное торжество, в котором удача не имеет доли.“

„Истинное остроумие всегда сродни добродушию. Остроумие теряет цену, когда оно соединено со злостью.“

„Болтливы те, кто не умеет думать.“

„Самая могущественная страсть — тщеславие. Спаси меня от этой страсти, и я сам избавлюсь от остальных.“

„Передатчики сплетен нисколько не лучше, чем их сочинители.“

„Народ, зависящий от воли одного человека, не может сохраниться, да и не заслуживает этого.“

„Библиотека для чтения в городе — это вечнозеленое дерево дьявольского познания, и кто постоянно забавляется его листами, тот и до плода дойдет.“

„Все мы игрушки в руках судьбы.“

„Необходимость — подлинная мать искусства, которая сродни фантазии.“

„Жизнь, прожитую достойно, следует измерять деяниями, а не годами.“

„Срежь Сплетне голову — язык живет.“

“My valour is certainly going! — it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palm of my hands!”

“You're our enemy; lead the way, and we 'll precede.”

“Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.”

“Never say more than is necessary.”

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

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

“The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.”

“The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.”

“Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.”

“Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,—disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.”

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

“An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.”

“While his off-heel, insidiously aside,
Provokes the caper which he seems to chide.”

“The Spanish fleet thou canst not see, because—it is not yet in sight!”

“He is the very pineapple of politeness!”

“I leave my character behind me.”

“It was an amiable weakness.”

“An apothecary should never be out of spirits.”

“I loved him for himself alone.”

“Believe not each accusing tongue,
As most weak persons do;
But still believe that story wrong,
Which ought not to be true!”

“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.”

“You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?”

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

“I ne'er could any luster see
In eyes that would not look on me.”

“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.”

“Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.”

“Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.”

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

“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…”