He dare not come in company, for here he should be misused, disgraced, overshoot himself in gesture or speeches or be sick; he thinks everyman observes him. – Richard Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so. – François VI de la Rochefoucault, Maxims

The conversation at dinner had been so heated that by the end of it Mrs. Miniver had developed mental, moral, and physical indigestion….. [F]rom that moment on she resigned herself to a headache, and got it. – Jan Struther, Mrs. Miniver, 1930s