“Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.”

She is laughing up her sleeve at you.

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn’t show it to everybody.

The great ambition of women is to inspire love.

Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

I believe that two and two are four and that four and four are eight.

There is no protection against slander.

Too great haste leads us to error.

When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.

The more powerful the obstacle, the more glory we have in overcoming it; and the difficulties with which we are met are the maids of honor which set off virtue.

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can’t deceive.

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

I maintain, in truth, That with a smile we should instruct our youth, Be very gentle when we have to blame, And not put them in fear of virtue’s name.

Do you know how expensive it is to look this cheap?

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.

If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.

Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don’t expect it from cheap people.