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The School for Scandal

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The School for Scandal is a comedy of manners written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. It was first performed in London at Drury Lane Theatre on 8 May 1777.

“Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal

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

“An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal

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

“I leave my character behind me.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal

Act II, sc. ii.
The School for Scandal (1777)

“It was an amiable weakness.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal

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

“Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal

Act II, sc. ii.
The School for Scandal (1777)

“Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen;
Here's to the widow of fifty;
Here's to the flaunting, extravegant quean,
And here's to the housewife that's thrifty.
Let the toast pass —
Drink to the lass;
I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal

Act III, sc. iii.
The School for Scandal (1777)

“You had no taste when you married me.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal

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

“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)

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