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Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals
Act IV, sc. ii.
The Rivals (1775)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals
Act V, sc. iii.
The Rivals (1775)
“You're our enemy; lead the way, and we 'll precede.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals
Act V, sc. i.
The Rivals (1775)
“Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals
Act I, sc. ii.
The Rivals (1775)
“Never say more than is necessary.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals
Act II, sc. i.
The Rivals (1775)
“The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic
Act I, sc. ii.
Источник: The Critic (1779)
“Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal
Act I, sc. i.
Источник: The School for Scandal (1777)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals
Act IV, sc. iii.
The Rivals (1775)
Sheridaniana, Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas.
“Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic
Act I, sc. ii.
The Critic (1779)
“There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic
Act I, sc. i.
The Critic (1779)
“An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal
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!”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic
Act II, sc. ii.
The Critic (1779)
“He is the very pineapple of politeness!”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals
Act III, sc. iii.
The Rivals (1775)
“I leave my character behind me.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal
Act II, sc. ii.
The School for Scandal (1777)
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal
Act V, sc. i.
The School for Scandal (1777)
“An apothecary should never be out of spirits.”
St. Patrick's Day (1775), Act I, sc. i.
“I loved him for himself alone.”
Act I, sc. iii.
The Duenna (1775)
Reported in Nicholas Harris Nicolas, The Carcanet: a Literary Album, Containing Select Passages from the Most Distinguished English Writers (1828), p. 132.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals
Act V, sc. iii.
The Rivals (1775)
“You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals
Act IV, sc. ii.
The Rivals (1775)
“Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike — no bail, no demurrer.”
St. Patrick's Day (1775), Act II, sc. iv.
“I ne'er could any luster see
In eyes that would not look on me.”
Act I, sc. ii.
The Duenna (1775)
“Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic
Act II, sc. ii.
The Critic (1779)
“Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic
Act II, sc. i.
The Critic (1779)
“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)
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.
