I foresee, that before the end of this century, the trade of both King and Priest will not be half so good a one as it has been. - Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces; for every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome.

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.