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"Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole."
Letter to Bolingbroke, March 21, 1729.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A penny for your thoughts."
Introduction to Polite Conversation.
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"Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?"
Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The sight of you is good for sore eyes."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"'T is as cheap sitting as standing."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I won't quarrel with my bread and butter."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"She looks as if butter wou'dn't melt in her mouth."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"If it had been a bear it would have bit you."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I mean you lie--under a mistake."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Lord Sp. Why, he is an Anythingarian."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He was a bold man that first eat an oyster."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"That is as well said as if I had said it myself."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"You must take the will for the deed."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"They say a carpenter 's known by his chips."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I 'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me "spade.""
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"May you live all the days of your life."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I have fed like a farmer: I shall grow as fat as a porpoise."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
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"I always like to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the Church to preserve all that travel by land or by water."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
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"I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I thought you and he were hand-in-glove."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"'T is happy for him that his father was before him."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"There is none so blind as they that won't see."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"She pays him in his own coin."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue iii.
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"There was all the world and his wife."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue iii.
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"Sharp 's the word with her."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue iii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"There 's two words to that bargain."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue iii.
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"I shall be like that tree,--I shall die at the top."
Scott's Life of Swift.
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"Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."
The Mourning Bride. Act i. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"By magic numbers and persuasive sound."
The Mourning Bride. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
The Mourning Bride. Act iii. Sc. 8.
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"For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds."
The Mourning Bride. Act v. Sc. 12.
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"If there 's delight in love, 't is when I see That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me."
The Way of the World. Act iii. Sc. 12.
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"Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude."
Love for Love. Act ii. Sc. 5.
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"I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar."
Love for Love. Act ii. Sc. 7.
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"Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days."
The Old Bachelor. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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"Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure."
The Old Bachelor. Act v. Sc. 1.
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"Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise."
Letter to Cobham.
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"To die is landing on some silent shore Where billows never break, nor tempests roar; Ere well we feel the friendly stroke, 't is o'er."
The Dispensary. Canto iii. Line 225.
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"I see the right, and I approve it too, Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue."
Ovid, Metamorphoses, vii. 20 (translated by Tate and Stonestreet, edited by Garth).
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"For all their luxury was doing good."
Claremont. Line 149.
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"So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love, And thus the soldier arm'd with resolution Told his soft tale, and was a thriving wooer."
Richard III. (altered). Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"Now, by St. Paul, the work goes bravely on."
Richard III. (altered). Act iii. Sc. 1.
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