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Quotes from The School for Scandal — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

1751–1816 Ireland

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13 quotes

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

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.

The School for Scandal (1777)

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.

The School for Scandal (1777)

I’m called away by particular business—but I leave my character behind me.

The School for Scandal (1777)

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

The School for Scandal (1777)

Be just before you're generous.

The School for Scandal (1777)

There is no trusting appearances.

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.

The School for Scandal (1777)

I believe there is no sentiment he has such faith in as that "charity begins at home"
And his, I presume, is of that domestic sort which never stirs abroad at all.

The School for Scandal (1777)

I leave my character behind me.

The School for Scandal (1777)

You had no taste when you married me.

The School for Scandal (1777)

It was an amiable weakness.

The School for Scandal (1777)

Mrs Candour: I’ll swear her colour is natural—I have seen it come and go—
Lady Teazle: I dare swear you have, ma’am; it goes of a night and comes again in the morning.

The School for Scandal (1777)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.