Quote #12

If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

More from Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  1. He is the very pineapple of politeness!
  2. As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
  3. I know you are laughing in your sleeve.
  4. Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
  5. Never say more than is necessary.
  6. No caparisons, miss, if you please. Caparisons don't become a young woman.
  7. A progeny of learning.
  8. You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?

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