Emotions and Feelings

This man I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.

Sir, we are a nest of singing birds.

I’ll come no more behind your scenes, David; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.

I’ll come no more behind your scenes, David; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.

I am sorry I have not learned to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness and consolidates society.

A cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know,

A frame of adamant, a soul of fire,

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a public library.

Muero porque no muero.

Castles in the air—they are so easy to take refuge in. And easy to build, too.

I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

I got the Weary Blues

Non sum qualis eram bonae

Misce stultitiam consiliis brevem:

Post equitem sedet atra Cura.

Post equitem sedet atra Cura.

Nihil est ab omni

Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero Pulsanda tellus.

Nil desperandum.

Nil desperandum.

Ira furor brevis est.