Quotes from work

She Stoops to Conquer

“In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.”

“We are the boys
That fear no noise
Where the thundering cannons roar.”

“The very pink of perfection.”

“A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.”

“We modest Gentlemen don't want for much success among the women.”

“Oh sir! I must not tell my age.
They say women and music should never be dated.”

“Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain,
With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;
Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,
Gives genus a better discerning.”

“Baw! Damme, but I'll fight you both, one after the other!
With baskets.”

“I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.”

“The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.”

“They liked the book the better the more it made them cry.”

“The first blow is half the battle.”

“Travellers, George, must pay in all places: the only difference is, that in good inns, you pay dearly for your luxuries, and in bad inns you are fleeced and starved.”