“A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.”
Act III, sc. i.
The Rivals (1775)
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“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)
“An oyster may be crossed in love.”
Clio's Protest (1819).
The Critic (1779)
“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