"Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman."

“Yes, I am a fatal man, Madame Fribsbi. To inspire hopeless passion is my destiny.”

“I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.”

“Stupid people, people who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited.”

“Them's my sentiments.”

“Bravery never goes out of fashion.”

“Of the Corporation of the Goosequill — of the Press, my boy, … of the fourth estate … There she is — the great engine — she never sleeps. She has her ambassadors in every quarter of the world — her couriers upon every road. Her officers march along with armies, and her envoys walk into statesmen's cabinets. They are ubiquitous.”