There's nothing like being used to a thing. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

... if Charles is undone, he'll find half his acquaintance ruined too, and that, you know, is a consolation.

"Are you ashamed of having done a right thing once in your life?"

"Ah: Sir — consider I live by the Badness of my Character! — I have nothing but my Infamy to depend on! — and, if it were once known that I had been betray'd into an honest Action, I should lose every Friend I have in the world."

An oyster may be crossed in love!