Quote #20

Through all the drama-whether damned or not- Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.

More from Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  1. I own the soft impeachment.
  2. I ne'er could any luster see In eyes that would not look on me.
  3. My valor is certainly going!-it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palm of my hands!
  4. I loved him for himself alone.
  5. The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
  6. A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge, or vicar.
  7. You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?
  8. Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

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