I seem to you cruel and too much addicted to gluttony, when I beat my cook for sending up a bad dinner.… — Martial Copy Share Image
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved in amber, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. — Martial Copy Share Image
I'm what I seem; not any dyer gave, But nature dyed this colour that I have. — Martial Copy Share Image
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its… — Martial Copy Share Image
All your female friends are either old or ugly; nay, more ugly than old women usually are. These you lead about in… — Martial Copy Share Image
If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds. — Martial Copy Share Image
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure — Martial Copy Share Image
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other… — Martial Copy Share Image
“You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch,but she won't say no.” — Martial Copy Share Image
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit. — Martial Copy Share Image
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door… — Martial Copy Share Image
