“Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.”

“Raillery is more insupportable than wrong; because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.”

“People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.”

“We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.”

“We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.”

“He does me double wrongThat wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.”

“The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.”

“Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.”