"Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead."

"That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse."

"Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds."

"It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have."

"His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall."