I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding. 
I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar. 
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind. 
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections. 
There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth. 
He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure. 
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable. 
You'll grow devilish fat upon this paper-diet! 
Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners. 
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. 
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. 
Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise. 
I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere. 
Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard. 
To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task. 
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. 
I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit. 
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week. 
Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste. 
To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself. 
Who pleases one against his will. 
Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other. 
I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. 
Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants. 
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. 
Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour. 
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. (quoted in Life After Life)
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire. 
There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion! 
O, she is the antidote to desire. 
Heav'n hath no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed. 
A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one. 
A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty. 
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. 
Musick has charms to soothe a savage breast 
O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell. 
One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ. 
Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you. 
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom. 
Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days. 
In hours of bliss we oft have met:They could not always last;
And though the present I regret,
I'm grateful for the past.
Beauty is the lover's gift. 
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views. 
Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind. 
No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me. 