"Were we faultless, we would not derive..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“Women know not the whole of their coquetry.”

“There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.”

“The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.”

“The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.”

“The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.”

“We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.”

“It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.”

“There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.”

“Ask someone you'd like to know to list five people they would most like to meet. It will tell you a lot about them.”