Act IV, sc. ii.
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“The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.”
Act I, sc. ii.
Source: The Critic (1779)
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Act IV, sc. iii.
The Rivals (1775)
Sheridaniana, Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes
“Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.”
Act I, sc. ii.
The Critic (1779)
“There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.”
Act I, sc. i.
The Critic (1779)
“An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.”
Act IV, sc. i.
The School for Scandal (1777)
“While his off-heel, insidiously aside,
Provokes the caper which he seems to chide.”
Pizarro (first acted 24 May 1799), Prologue.
“The Spanish fleet thou canst not see, because—it is not yet in sight!”
Act II, sc. ii.
The Critic (1779)
Act V, sc. i.
The School for Scandal (1777)
Reported in Nicholas Harris Nicolas, The Carcanet: a Literary Album, Containing Select Passages from the Most Distinguished English Writers (1828), p. 132.
“Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike — no bail, no demurrer.”
St. Patrick's Day (1775), Act II, sc. iv.
“Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.”
Act II, sc. i.
The Critic (1779)
“Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.”
Act II, sc. ii.
The School for Scandal (1777)
Pizarro (first acted 24 May 1799), Act iv, Scene 1. Compare: "Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours / Should not be numbered by years, daies, and hours", Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii.
“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.”
Act I, sc. ii.
The Critic (1779)
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)
“No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?”
Act II, sc. i.
The Critic (1779)
“Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!”
Act I, sc. ii.
The Critic (1779)
Act III, sc. iii.
The School for Scandal (1777)
“A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.”
Act III, sc. i.
The Rivals (1775)
“No caparisons, miss, if you please. Caparisons don't become a young woman.”
Act IV, sc. ii.
The Rivals (1775)
Act V, sc. iii.
The Rivals (1775)
“I wish, sir, you would practice this without me. I can't stay dying here all night.”
Act III, sc. i.
The Critic (1779)
“Had I a heart for falsehood framed,
I ne'er could injure you.”
Act I, sc. v.
The Duenna (1775)
Act I, sc. i.
The School for Scandal (1777)
Act I, sc. ii.
The Rivals (1775)
“My valour is certainly going!”
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
