Only the brave know how to forgive...A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

'Pray, my dear,' quoth my mother, 'have you not forgot to wind up the clock?' - 'Good G-!' cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate …

So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him - pray, Sir, what have…

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices.

Lorsque les femmes nous aiment, elles nous pardonnent tout, meme nos crimes; lorsqu'elles ne nous aiment pas, elles ne nous pardonnent rien, pas meme nos vertu…

Bien sur, il me pardonnera; c'est son metier. [Of course he will forgive me; that's his job.]