79 quotes
I loved him for himself alone.
The Duenna (1775)
If it is abuse,—why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
The Critic (1779)
We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people, — our retrospection will be all to the future.
The Rivals (1775)
A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
The Critic (1779)
A bumper of good liquor
Will end a contest quicker
Than justice, judge, or vicar.
The Duenna (1775)
While his off-heel, insidiously aside,
Provokes the caper which he seems to chide.
You write with ease to show your breeding,
But easy writing's curst hard reading.
Clio's Protest (1819)
As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.
The Rivals (1775)
I’m called away by particular business—but I leave my character behind me.
The School for Scandal (1777)
A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.
The Spanish fleet thou canst not see, because—it is not yet in sight!
The Critic (1779)
Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.
The Critic (1779)
Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
The Rivals (1775)
An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
St. Patrick's Day (1775)
The throne we honour is the people’s choice.
Pizarro (1799)
The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
The Rivals (1775)
Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast
Where love has been received a welcome guest.
The Duenna (1775)
Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike — no bail, no demurrer.
St. Patrick's Day (1775)