More from Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  1. Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
  2. You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?
  3. As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
  4. The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
  5. If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
  6. My valor is certainly going!-it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palm of my hands!
  7. He is the very pineapple of politeness!
  8. I own the soft impeachment.

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