The stiff-backed prig, with his dandified airs and West End swagger. - William Makepeace Thackeray

Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.

Women only know how to wound so. There is a poison on the tips of their little shafts, which stings a thousand times more than a man's blunter weapon.

if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!