Quote #13
As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
More from Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
- Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
- He is the very pineapple of politeness!
- No caparisons, miss, if you please. Caparisons don't become a young woman.
- I know you are laughing in your sleeve.
- You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?
- Never say more than is necessary.
- The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.