Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Credulity is the sister of innocence.
Concealment is the foe of tranquility.
Tis best to build no castles in the air.
But how cool, how quiet is true courage!
But authors before they write should read.
Childhood is never troubled with foresight.
How little has situation to do with happiness.
falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.
to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.
The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.
A little alarm now and then keeps life from stagnation.
You must learn not only to judge but to act for yourself.
I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
O! how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman's liberty!
while we all desire to live long, we have all a horror of being old!
We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.
. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.
Far from having taken any positive step, I have not yet even fommed any resolution.
Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure
Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.
it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation
such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.
Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.
To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.
Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.
... it's vastly more irksome to give up one's own way, than to hear a few impertinent remarks.
Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.
Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit.
But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.
to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!
the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.
... there's nothing but quarreling with the women; it's my belief they like it better than victuals and drink.
We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in the world.
Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.
an old woman ... is a person who has no sense of decency; if once she takes to living, the devil himself can't get rid of her.
Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for it.
Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.
don't be angry with the gentleman for thinking, whatever be the cause, for I assure you he makes no common practice of offending in that way.
I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.
I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is very odd, for all the world seemed there.
Well of all things in the world, I don't suppose anything can be so dreadful as a public wedding--my stars!--I should never be able to support it!
Unused to the situations in which I find myself, and embarassed by the slightest difficulties, I seldom discover, till too late, how I ought to act.
O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.