More from Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  1. I know you are laughing in your sleeve.
  2. If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
  3. Never say more than is necessary.
  4. As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
  5. A progeny of learning.
  6. Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
  7. 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
  8. No caparisons, miss, if you please. Caparisons don't become a young woman.

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