One is a fish to her hook; another a moth to her light One might build up a respectable figure in negatives One in a temper at a time I'm sure 's enough One night, and her character's gone One learns to have compassion for fools, by studying them One has to feel strong in a delicate position One of those men whose characters are read off at a glance One seed of a piece of folly will lurk and sprout to confound us One idea is a bullet One fool makes many, and so, no doubt, does one goose Only to be described in the tongue of auctioneers Only true race, properly so called, out of India--German Opened a wider view of the world to him, and a colder Openly treated; all had an air of being on the surface Optional marriages, broken or renewed every seven years Or where you will, so that's in Ireland Oratory will not work against the stream, or on languid tides Orderliness, from which men are privately exempt Our most diligent pupil learns not so much as an earnest teacher Our weakness is the swiftest dog to hunt us Our partner is our master Our comedies are frequently youth's tragedies Our life is but a little holding, lent To do a mighty labour Our bravest, our best, have an impulse to run Our lawyers have us inside out, like our physicians Our love and labour are constantly on trial Owner of such a woman, and to lose her! Pact between cowardice and comfort under the title of expediency Pain is a cloak that wraps you about Paint themselves pure white, to the obliteration of minor spots Parliament, is the best of occupations for idle men Partake of a morning draught Passion, he says, is noble strength on fire Passion is not invariably love Passion added to a bowl of reason makes a sophist's mess Passion does not inspire dark appetite-- Dainty innocence does Past, future, and present, the three weights upon humanity Past fairness, vaguely like a snow landscape in the thaw Patience is the pestilence Patronizing woman Paying compliments and spoiling a game! Payment is no more so than to restore money held in trust Peace-party which opposed was the actual cause of the war Peace, I do pray, for the husband-haunted wife Pebble may roll where it likes--not so the costly jewel Peculiar subdued form of laughter through the nose People of a provocative prosperity People were virtuous in past days: they counted their sinners People with whom a mute conformity is as good as worship People who can lose themselves in a ray of fancy at any season People is one of your Radical big words that burst at a query Perhaps inspire him, if he would let her breathe Period of his life a man becomes too voraciously constant Persist, if thou wouldst truly reach thine ends Person in another world beyond this world of blood Perused it, and did not recognize herself in her language Pessimy is invulnerable Petty concessions are signs of weakness to the unsatisfied Philip was a Spartan for keeping his feelings under