More from Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  1. A progeny of learning.
  2. I know you are laughing in your sleeve.
  3. 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
  4. He is the very pineapple of politeness!
  5. The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
  6. If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
  7. An oyster may be crossed in love.
  8. As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

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