Quote #18
My valor is certainly going!-it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palm of my hands!
More from Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
- I own the soft impeachment.
- You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?
- Through all the drama-whether damned or not- Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
- No caparisons, miss, if you please. Caparisons don't become a young woman.
- I ne'er could any luster see In eyes that would not look on me.
- Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
- I loved him for himself alone.