“You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute,And now and then stab, when occasion serves.”
“You know the words, but you are too proud to serve. A servant must be humble and obedient.”
“Be bloody bold and resolute.”
“In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way.I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.”
“Oh pleasure, you're indeed a pleasant thing, / Although one must be damned for you no doubt. / I make a resolution every spring / Of reformation, ere the year run out.”
“The objects for which there is no satisfactory resolution… In theory, these mementos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here.”