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"Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Rivals. Act i. Sc. 2.
The Rivals. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"'T is safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Rivals. Act i. Sc. 2.
The Rivals. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"A progeny of learning."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Rivals. Act i. Sc. 2.
The Rivals. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 1.
The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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"He is the very pine-apple of politeness!"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 3.
The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 3.
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"If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 3.
The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 3.
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"As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 3.
The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 3.
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"Too civil by half."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 4.
The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 4.
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"Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 1.
The Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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"No caparisons, miss, if you please. Caparisons don't become a young woman."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 2.
The Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 2.
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"We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,--our retrospection will be all to the future."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 2.
The Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 2.
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"You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 2.
The Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 2.
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"The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 3.
The Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 3.
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"You 're our enemy; lead the way, and we 'll precede."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Rivals. Act v. Sc. 1.
The Rivals. Act v. Sc. 1.
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"There 's nothing like being used to a thing."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Rivals. Act v. Sc. 3.
The Rivals. Act v. Sc. 3.
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"As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Rivals. Act v. Sc. 3.
The Rivals. Act v. Sc. 3.
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"My valour is certainly going! it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palm of my hands!"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Rivals. Act v. Sc. 3.
The Rivals. Act v. Sc. 3.
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"I own the soft impeachment."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Rivals. Act v. Sc. 3.
The Rivals. Act v. Sc. 3.
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"Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,--disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Critic. Act i. Sc. 1.
The Critic. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villanous, licentious, abominable, infernal-- Not that I ever read them! No, I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Critic. Act i. Sc. 2.
The Critic. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Critic. Act i. Sc. 2.
The Critic. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"Sheer necessity,--the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Critic. Act i. Sc. 2.
The Critic. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 1.
The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 1.
The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 1.
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"Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 2.
The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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"Inconsolable to the minuet in Ariadne."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 2.
The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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"The Spanish fleet thou canst not see, because--it is not yet in sight!"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 2.
The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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"An oyster may be crossed in love."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Critic. Act iii. Sc. 1.
The Critic. Act iii. Sc. 1.
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"You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / School for Scandal. Act i. Sc. 1.
School for Scandal. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / School for Scandal. Act ii. Sc. 2.
School for Scandal. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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"I leave my character behind me."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / School for Scandal. Act ii. Sc. 2.
School for Scandal. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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"Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant quean, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass; Drink to the lass; I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / School for Scandal. Act iii. Sc. 3.
School for Scandal. Act iii. Sc. 3.
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"An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / School for Scandal. Act v. Sc. 1.
School for Scandal. Act v. Sc. 1.
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"It was an amiable weakness."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / School for Scandal. Act v. Sc. 1.
School for Scandal. Act v. Sc. 1.
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"I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Duenna. Act i. Sc. 2.
The Duenna. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Duenna. Act i. Sc. 5.
The Duenna. Act i. Sc. 5.
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"Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / The Duenna. Act ii. Sc. 4.
The Duenna. Act ii. Sc. 4.
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"While his off-heel, insidiously aside. Provokes the caper which he seems to chide."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / Pizarro. The Prologue.
Pizarro. The Prologue.
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"Such protection as vultures give to lambs."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / Pizarro. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Pizarro. Act ii. Sc. 2.
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"A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,--by deeds, not years."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / Pizarro. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Pizarro. Act iv. Sc. 1.
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"The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas. Sheridaniana.
Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas. Sheridaniana.
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"You write with ease to show your breeding, But easy writing 's curst hard reading."
Richard Brinsley Sheridan / Clio's Protest. Life of Sheridan (Moore). Vol. i. p. 155.
Clio's Protest. Life of Sheridan (Moore). Vol. i. p. 155.
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