She Stoops To Conquer - Quotes

Front 1

"Let school-masters puzzle their brain / With grammar, and nonsense, and learning /

Back 1

Good liquor, I stoutly maintain / Gives genius a better discerning"

Tony's song

Act 1

Front 2

"I find this fellow's civilities

Back 2

begin to grow troublesome"

Hastings, regarding Hardcastle

Act 2

Front 3

"The folly of most people is rather

Back 3

an object of mirth than uneasiness"

Marlow, to Kate

Act 2

Front 4

"Those who have most virtue in their mouths,

Back 4

have least of it in their bosom"

Marlow, to Kate

Act 2

Front 5

"I can read the outside of my letters, where my own name is, well enough.

Back 5

But when I come to open it, it's all - buzz"

Tony, about the letter than has arrived from Hastings

Act 4

Front 6

Kate is praised by Marlow for having "refined _____"

Back 6

Simplicity

Front 7

"You took them in a round, while they supposed themselves going forward.

Back 7

And you have at last brought them home again."

Hastings, to Tony

Act 5

Front 8

"Prudence once more comes to my relief, and I will obey its dictates. In a moment of passion,

Back 8

fortune may be despised, but it produces a lasting repentance."

Constance, to Hastings

Act 5

Front 9

"I have been an observer upon life, madam,

Back 9

while others were enjoying it"

Marlow, to Kate

Act 2

Front 10

"An honest man may

Back 10

rob himself of his own at any time"

Tony, to Hastings

Act 3

Front 11

"This is all but the whining

Back 11

end of a modern novel"

Mrs. Hardcastle

Act 5

Front 12

"I'm doomed to adore the sex, and yet to

Back 12

converse with the only part of it I despise"

Marlow

Act 2

Front 13

"I wonder why London cannot

Back 13

keep its own fools at home!"

Mr. Hardcastle

Act 1

Front 14

"It is a good-natured

Back 14

creature at bottom"

Constance, regarding Tony

Act 1

Front 15

"the daughter is said to be well-bred and beautiful;

Back 15

the son an awkward booby, reared up and spoiled at his mother's apron string"

Marlow, regarding Kate and Tony

Front 16

"My life has been chiefly spent in a college or an inn,

Back 16

in seclusion from that lovely part of the creation that chiefly teach men confidence"

Marlow, to Hastings

Act 2

Front 17

"In the company of women of better reputation

Back 17

I never saw such an idiot, such a trembler"

Hastings, regarding Marlow

Act 2

Front 18

"A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery,

Back 18

is the most tremendous object of the whole creation"

Marlow

Act 2

Front 19

"Miss Neville's person is all I ask, and that is mine,

Back 19

both from her deceased father's consent, and her own inclination"

Hastings, to Marlow

Act 2

Front 20

"I yet should leave my

Back 20

little fortune behind with reluctance"

Constance

Act 2

Front 21

"Her _____ monster"

Back 21

Pretty

Constance, regarding Tony

Act 1

Front 22

"A single glance from a pair of

Back 22

fine eyes has totally overset my resolution"

Marlow

Act 2

Front 23

"One must dress

Back 23

a little particular"

Mrs. Hardcastle

Act 2

Front 24

"We all know the honour

Back 24

of the bar-maid of an inn"

Marlow

Act 4

Front 25

"But I owe toomuch to the opinion of the world,

Back 25

too much to the authority of a father"

Marlow

Act 4