"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."

"Much is to be said in favour of toasted cheese for supper."

"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."

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