Le Critique : Ou Répétition d'une tragédie

I wish, sir, you would practice this without me. I can't stay dying here all night.

“The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.”

“There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.”