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I'm called away by particular business. But I leave my character behind me. - School for Scandal (act II, sc. 2) [Character] 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. (Chorus:) Let the toast pass,-- Drink to the lass, I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass. - School for Scandal (act III, sc. 3, song) [Toasts] An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance. - School for Scandal (act IV, sc. 1) [Face] I believe there is no sentiment he has such faith in as that charity begins at home" And his, I presume., is of that domestic sort which never stirs abroad at all. - School for Scandal (act V, sc. 1) [Charity] 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. - The Critic (act I, sc. 1) [Plagiarism] 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. - The Critic (act I, sc. 1) [Journalism] Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two! - The Critic (act I, sc. 2) [Linguists] Sheer necessity--the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention. - The Critic (act I, sc. 2) [Necessity] Inconsolable to the minuet in Ariadne! - The Critic (act II, sc, 2) [Dancing] Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible. - The Critic (act II, sc. 1) [Impossibility : Nature] An oyster may be crossed in love! Who says A whale's a bird?--Ha! did you call my love?-- He's here! He's there! he's everywhere! An me! he's nowhere! - The Critic--A Tragedy Rehearsed (act III, sc. 1) [Oysters] Had I a heart for falsehood framed. I ne'er could injure you. - The Duenna (act I, sc. 5) [Lying] Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast Where love has been received a welcome guest. - The Duenna (act II) [Pity] This bottle's the sun of our table, His beams are rosy wine; We planets that are not able Without his held to shine. - The Duenna (act III, sc. 5) [Drinking] A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. - The Rivals (act I, sc. 2) [Libraries] I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning. - The Rivals (act I, sc. 2) [Learning] That's too civil by half. - The Rivals (act III, sc. 4) [Courtesy] Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. - The Rivals (act IV, sc. 1) [Ancestry] You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you? - The Rivals (act IV, sc. 2) [Gentlemen] The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. - The Rivals (act IV, sc. 3) [Quarreling] I own the soft impeachment. - The Rivals (act V, sc. 3) [Confession] My valor is certainly going!--it is sneaking off!--I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palms of my hands. - The Rivals (act V, sc. 3) [Valor] One moral's plain, . . . without more fuss; Man's social happiness all rests on us: Through all the drama--whether damn'd or not-- Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot. - The Rivals--Epilogue [Women] Displaying page 3 of 3 for this author: << Prev 1 2 [3]
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