What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

The whole universe wants to contribute toyou. The world wants to contribute to you. The world wants to give you everything you desire—but you don’t ask.

Rachel weeping for her children and would not be comforted because they are not.

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

Loose lips sink ships.

I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.

There is no talent so pernicious as eloquence to those who have it under command.

Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.

I am convinced that if we as a society work diligently in every other area of life and neglect the family, it would be analogous to straightening deck chairs on the Titanic.

Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady in her own right.