Austin Dobson, Proverbs in Porcelain.
OMEN, when left to themselves, talk chiefly about their dress; they think more about their lovers than they talk about them.
W. Hazlitt, Characteristics.
IF billows and pillows, and bowers and flowers,
And all the brave rhymes of an elder day,
Could be furled together, this genial weather,
And carted, or carried on "wafts" away,
Nor ever again trotted out—ah me!
How much fewer volumes of verse there'd be!
C. S. Calverley, Fly Leaves.
ISS PRUE. Must I tell a lie, then?
Tattle. Yes, if you'd be well-bred. All well-bred persons lie.
Congreve, Love for Love.