"A man of no conversation should smoke...." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Sleep is not, death is not; Who seem to die Live. House you were born in, Friends of your spring-time, old man and young maid, Day's toil and it's guerdon, They are all vanishing, Fleeing to fables, Cannot be moored”

“Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.”

“Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.”

“If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.”

“Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow.”

“At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.”

“Do you suppose I could buy back my introduction to you?”

“We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.”

“I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.”