SSTC Quotes

Is there a creature in the whole country but ourselves, that does not

take a trip to town now and then, to rub off the rust a little? (1.1)

the alehouse and the stable are the

only schools he'll ever go to. (1.1)

I'll never

control your choice. (1.1)

A reserved lover, it is said,

always makes a suspicious husband. (1.1)

They look woundily

like Frenchmen (1.2)

I intend opening the campaign

with the white and gold (2)

This is Liberty-hall, gentlemen. You

may do just as you please here. (2)

His uncle a colonel! We shall soon

hear of his mother being a justice of the peace! (2)

Perish the baubles! Your

person is all I desire. (2)

Pray, Mr. Hastings, what do you take to be the

most fashionable age about town? (2)

those who have most virtue in their mouths, have

least of it in their bosoms. (2)

He met me with a respectful bow, a

stammering voice, and a look fixed on the ground. (3)

I never saw such a bouncing,

swaggering puppy (3)

If young Mr Brazen can find the art of

reconciling contradictions, he may please us both (3)

At the Ladies' Club in town I'm

called their agreeable Rattle (3)

Didn't you see the tempting, brisk, lovely little thing, that

runs about the house with a bunch of keys to its girdle? (4)

What think you of the Rake's

progress for your apartment? (4)

Your constancy for three years will but

increase the happiness of our future connection (4)

Girls like to be played with,

and rumpled a little too (5.1)

Mentioned his heart, gave a short tragedy speech,

and ended with pretended rapture (5.1)

Crackskull

Common (5.2)

My fears

blinded me (5.2)

Hide yourself in that thicket,

and leave me to manage him (5.2)

Fortune was ever

my smallest consideration (5.3)

The mild, modest,

sentimental man of gravity (5.3)

Zounds, there's no

bearing this. It's worse than death. (5.3)

(joining their hands) … if she makes as good a wife as she has a

daughter, I don't' believe you'll ever repent your bargain (5.3)