I loved him for himself alone. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"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."

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.