You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.
From Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.
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