The School for Scandal

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.

To pity, without the power to relieve, is still more painful than to ask and be denied.

If to raise malicious smiles at the infirmities or misfortunes of those who have never injured us be the province of wit or humour, Heaven grant me a double portion of dullness.

... if Charles is undone, he'll find half his acquaintance ruined too, and that, you know, is a consolation.

-'tis an old observation, and a very true one; but what's to be done, as I said before? how will you prevent people from talking?...