Richard Brinsley Sheridan Berühmte Zitate
Die Lästerschule I, 1 / Frau von Höhnisch
Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Zitate auf Englisch
“You're our enemy; lead the way, and we 'll precede.”
Act V, sc. i.
The Rivals (1775)
“Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.”
Act I, sc. ii.
The Rivals (1775)
“Never say more than is necessary.”
Act II, sc. i.
The Rivals (1775)
“The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.”
Act I, sc. ii.
Quelle: The Critic (1779)
“Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.”
Act I, sc. i.
Quelle: The School for Scandal (1777)
Sheridaniana, Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas.
“Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.”
Act I, sc. ii.
The Critic (1779)
“There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.”
Act I, sc. i.
The Critic (1779)
“An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.”
Act IV, sc. i.
The School for Scandal (1777)
“While his off-heel, insidiously aside,
Provokes the caper which he seems to chide.”
Pizarro (first acted 24 May 1799), Prologue.
“The Spanish fleet thou canst not see, because—it is not yet in sight!”
Act II, sc. ii.
The Critic (1779)
“He is the very pineapple of politeness!”
Act III, sc. iii.
The Rivals (1775)
“I leave my character behind me.”
Act II, sc. ii.
The School for Scandal (1777)
Reported in Nicholas Harris Nicolas, The Carcanet: a Literary Album, Containing Select Passages from the Most Distinguished English Writers (1828), p. 132.
“You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?”
Act IV, sc. ii.
The Rivals (1775)
“Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike — no bail, no demurrer.”
St. Patrick's Day (1775), Act II, sc. iv.
“Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.”
Act II, sc. ii.
The Critic (1779)
“Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.”
Act II, sc. i.
The Critic (1779)
“Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.”
Act II, sc. ii.
The School for Scandal (1777)
Pizarro (first acted 24 May 1799), Act iv, Scene 1. Compare: "Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours / Should not be numbered by years, daies, and hours", Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii.
