“Through all the drama — whether damned or not —
Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals
Epilogue.
The Rivals (1775)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan: 58 citations0 J'aime
Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Citations en anglais
“Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.”
Act II, sc. iv.
The Duenna (1775)
“A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic
Act I, sc. ii.
The Critic (1779)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals
Act III, sc. iii.
The Rivals (1775)
“A bumper of good liquor
Will end a contest quicker
Than justice, judge, or vicar.”
Act I, sc. iii.
The Duenna (1775)
“As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals
Act III, sc. iii.
The Rivals (1775)
“No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic
Act II, sc. i.
The Critic (1779)
“Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic
Act I, sc. ii.
The Critic (1779)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal
Act III, sc. iii.
The School for Scandal (1777)
“You had no taste when you married me.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal
Act I, sc. ii.
The School for Scandal (1777)
“A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals
Act III, sc. i.
The Rivals (1775)
“No caparisons, miss, if you please. Caparisons don't become a young woman.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals
Act IV, sc. ii.
The Rivals (1775)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals
Act V, sc. iii.
The Rivals (1775)
“An oyster may be crossed in love.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic
Clio's Protest (1819).
The Critic (1779)
“I wish, sir, you would practice this without me. I can't stay dying here all night.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic
Act III, sc. i.
The Critic (1779)
“Such protection as vultures give to lambs.”
Pizarro (first acted 24 May 1799), Act ii, scene 2.
“There's nothing like being used to a thing.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals
Act V, sc. iii.
The Rivals (1775)
“Inconsolable to the minuet in Ariadne.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic
Act II, sc. ii.
The Critic (1779)
“Had I a heart for falsehood framed,
I ne'er could injure you.”
Act I, sc. v.
The Duenna (1775)
“I know you are laughing in your sleeve.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals
Act II, sc. i.
The Rivals (1775)
“Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals
Act I, sc. ii.
The Rivals (1775)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal
Act I, sc. i.
The School for Scandal (1777)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals
Act III, sc. iv.
The Rivals (1775)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals
Act I, sc. ii.
The Rivals (1775)
“My valour is certainly going!”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals
it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palm of my hands!
Act V, sc. iii.
The Rivals (1775)
Speech in the House of Commons (21 July 1812), quoted in The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Time, Vol. XXIII (1812), column 1156
