When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

Writing, madam, is a mechanic part of wit. A gentleman should never go beyond a song or a billet.

We are not masters of our own affections; our inclinations dailyalter: now we love pleasure, and anon we shall dote on business. Human frailty will have it so, and who can help it?

I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used to affectation that without the help of the air of the court what is natural cannot touch me.

Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.

We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.

When some French were assembling an encyclopedia of paranormal experiences, they decided to leave déjà vu out, because it was so common it could not be considered paranormal.

The most important attribute a player must have is mental toughness.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

I was competing for attention in a four-piece band that was phenomenal, and I was trying to attack the blues from a kind of white English viewpoint as a singer.

Performances have a bit of a life and a time scale to themselves.

The consumer is getting fed up with shoddy material, poor quality, unsafe products, bad service, weak warranties, lack of adequate information -- the whole gamut of such problems.

What might once have been called whining is now exalted as a process of asserting selfhood; self-absorption is regarded as a form of self-expression.

And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.