When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

A good husband makes a good wife at any time.

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

Those who know the least obey the best.

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of wordsand not one of them can save me.

Language is no barrier for a lover of words.

We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.

If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

Most disagreements are the result of faulty assumptions.

I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.

I do find it sometimes that people project their own feelings on to the characters and I think that there is a certain amount of sexism - I mean the proprietary nature, for men and women.

The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.