Proverbs for Acting |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 24
Page 5
... higher . With my fortune , face , and figure , I may choose where I will throw my handkerchief , and the thing's done . DOUBT . But I thought you were desperately in love with her . CLEV . Pooh , pooh , Doubtful : the folly THE WILL . 5.
... higher . With my fortune , face , and figure , I may choose where I will throw my handkerchief , and the thing's done . DOUBT . But I thought you were desperately in love with her . CLEV . Pooh , pooh , Doubtful : the folly THE WILL . 5.
Page 6
... thought it something formerly . CLEV . When I had nothing myself even that seemed something ; but to a man with ten thou- sand a year it is a trifle - a mote in the sunbeam . DOUBT . Having so much yourself , you need less with a wife ...
... thought it something formerly . CLEV . When I had nothing myself even that seemed something ; but to a man with ten thou- sand a year it is a trifle - a mote in the sunbeam . DOUBT . Having so much yourself , you need less with a wife ...
Page 9
... thought you knew my uncle has left me the whole of his fortune , and a landed proprietor with ten thousand a year , and of course one of the aristocracy . MARY , ( laughing . ) And cannot associate with such canaille as his poor ...
... thought you knew my uncle has left me the whole of his fortune , and a landed proprietor with ten thousand a year , and of course one of the aristocracy . MARY , ( laughing . ) And cannot associate with such canaille as his poor ...
Page 13
... thought it more courteous to leave the fortune to you , being the lady . MARY . You are mistaken there , my uncle had far too much penetration and judgment to fancy any such attachment . " I shall be very happy to patronise you when I ...
... thought it more courteous to leave the fortune to you , being the lady . MARY . You are mistaken there , my uncle had far too much penetration and judgment to fancy any such attachment . " I shall be very happy to patronise you when I ...
Page 17
... thought one note more musical than a tinman's call of pots and pans , if the bird uttered his cry by day instead of night . NIECE . Oh , uncle , uncle ! how can you talk such treason ? The poets and lovers will toss you in a blanket ...
... thought one note more musical than a tinman's call of pots and pans , if the bird uttered his cry by day instead of night . NIECE . Oh , uncle , uncle ! how can you talk such treason ? The poets and lovers will toss you in a blanket ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
alias Jones Aloud bailiffs Barton's farm beggar better BOND bride brother Captain Cleverly CLEV commissioners cousin dare say Dobson Doleful DOUBT DOWLAN Enter Exeunt Exit eyes FRANK Franklyn Garbett give going gone Gossip hand handsome HART hate hear heard heart heiress hurry impostor Jack Smith Jeremiah Brown Lady Lady Juliana look lovers marry MARY mind MISS CLEAVE MISS GREY MISS JOHN never NIECE Norfolk Island Pepper pettishly PLAC Placid POLICE Policeman Pooh Poor Bessy Poor dear Jemima post octavo Prattle proverb rich Ruffle Sandford Selby Seymour de Hauteville shame SILENT SIR FRED Sir Frederick Jones Sir Michael Mowbray Smith STRAN suppose sure swell mob talk tell thing thought Tilson told Tom Smiths tongue TRENCH trust UNCLE vile vulgar wealth wedding won't wait word worse Worthy WYVILL young
Popular passages
Page 64 - one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.
Page 35 - Little Bo-peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them, Leave them alone, and they'll come home, And bring their tails behind them.
Page 90 - There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at its flood, leads on to fortune...
Page 18 - I put him into an out-house; and finding the symptoms he showed too clear to leave me any reason to doubt his madness, shot him, before he did any harm, through a little hole in the door, which I cut with my garden axe. The old rhyme says — A wife, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree, The more you beat them, the better they be.
Page 22 - He's tall and he's straight as the poplar tree, His cheeks are as fresh as the rose ; He looks like a squire of high degree When drest in his Sunday clothes.
Page 87 - What, John, not gone yet ? I thought you were to meet the Commissioners at twelve ? " To which, by some instinct of memory, I replied without thinking, " Yes. But it has not struck yet." JOAN : " But you know it's half an hour's walk to the Guildhall. " DAUPHIN :