Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.

The great curse of modern political life is incrementalism.

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

You just have this freedom when you're younger - this lack of concern to fail or do anything wrong. It comes with an ease that I've found has kind of deteriorated over time.