"Marrying girls is a nice matter always; for they are as cautious as crows plundering a corn-field. ... I don't myself…"

"Tap claret tastes best out of a pewter pot."

"Every popular preacher is a goose."

"Poetry is like claret, one enjoys it only when it is very new, or when it is very old."

"There is no such thing as female genius."

"When a man is drunk, it is no matter upon what he has got drunk."

"Hock cannot be too much, claret cannot be too little, iced."

"Never take lobster-sauce to salmon; it is mere painting of the lily, or, I should rather say, of the rose."

"In literature and in love we generally begin in bad taste."

"You've heard, I suppose, long ago, How the snakes, in a manner most antic, He march'd to the County Mayo, And trundle…"