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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. 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)

“I own the soft impeachment.”

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)

“You write with ease to show your breeding,
But easy writing's curst hard reading.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Clio's Protest (1819).

“Such protection as vultures give to lambs.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Act I, sc. v.
The Duenna (1775)

“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. i.
The Rivals (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)

“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 The School for Scandal

Act I, sc. i.
The School for Scandal (1777)

“Too civil by half.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals

Act III, sc. iv.
The Rivals (1775)

“A progeny of learning.”

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)

“Take our constitution, wanting certainly as it did many reforms, yet, practically, it afforded the best security that human wisdom had ever given to man.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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