When their lordships asked Bacon How many bribes he had taken He had at least the grace To get very red in the face. - Edmund Clerihew Bentley

What I like about Clive
Is that he is no longer alive.
There is a great deal to be said
For being dead.

You may as well know, Philip — you'll soon find out, anyhow — the truth is she will flirt with any man that she doesn't actively dislike. She's so brimful of life she can't hold herself in — or she won't, rather; she says there's no harm in it, and she doesn't care if there is. Before her marriage she didn't go on in that way, but since it turned out badly she has been simply uncivilized on that point. And her being perfectly clear-headed about it makes it so much worse.

Sir Humphrey Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.