(FINISHED) 2.1 The Rivals Quotes Flashcards
Sir Anthony on the Black Arts
I’d sooner have [his theoretical daughters] taught the black arts as their alphabets
Sir Anthony on passion
Passion is of no service, you impudent, insolent, over-bearing reprobate…
Sir Anthony on Dogs
You young dog!
Sir Anthony on forgiveness
! … I’d die sooner than forgive him… you shall be Jack again… my dear Jack…
Sir Anthony on pleasing father
To please my father? Zounds, not to please - O, my father!
Jack Absolute on sycophancy
Mild, gentle, considerate father
Jack Absolute on sycophancy and women
And which is to be mine? The niece or the aunt?
Jack Absolute on cooler judgements
How mean does this captious, unsatisfied temper of mine appear to my cooler judgement?
Jack Absolute on Mrs Malaprop
old, weather beaten she dragon
Jack Absolute to Mrs Malaprop
An impudent coxcomb!
Faulkland on happiness
What! Happy - and I away?
Faulkland on treason
I should regard every mirthful moment in your absence as a treason to constancy
Faulkland on wishing
If you loved me as I wished
Faulkland on coming and going
Ay, she is coming now… no faith, she is not coming either… she is coming too… she’s not coming!
Bob Acres on valour
My valour is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing off….
Bob Acres on clothing
I’ll make these old clothes know who’s master! … my hair has been in training for quite some time
Bob Acres on rage
Dear Sir Lucius, let me be in a rage, if you love me
Bob Acres on English legs
Mine are true born English legs, they don’t understand their cursed French lingo!
Bob Acres on fighting
We must fight to prevent any misunderstanding
Sir Lucius O’Trigger on heinous offences
Can a man commit a more heinous offence against another man than to fall in love with the same woman?
Sir Lucius O’Trigger on honour
What the devil signifies right when honour is concerned?
Bob Acres on Swearing
Oath referential or sentimental swearing! …. Odds, whips and wheels, Odds crickets!
Fag on revenge
To revenge one’s self on another, who happens to come in the way is the vilest injustice!… [exits, kicking the squire)
Fag on money
If I did not want money I’d steal your mistress and her fortune
David on honour
This honour seems to be a rather marvellous false friend
David on Ancestors
Our ancestors are good folks, but they’re the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with
David on mischief
Ay, in the name of mischief
Fag on divulging
True Ma’am, as you say, one should be quick in divulging matters of this nature
Mrs Malaprop on thought
Thought does not become a young woman
Mrs Malaprop on pineapples
The pineapple of politeness
Mrs Malaprop on murder
Why, murder’s the matter! slaughter’s the matter! killing’s the matter! - but he can tell you the perpendiculars
Mrs Malaprop on uncle
I hated your poor dear uncle before marriage as if he’s been a blackamoor
Mrs Malaprop on language attacks
An attack upon my language… sure I reprehend anything in this world
Lydia Languish on alternatives
“Nor could I love the man who would wish to wait a day for the alternative.”
Sir Anthony on livestock
“If you have the estate, you must take it with the live stock on it, as it stands.”
Lydia Languish on obedience
Obligation! why a water spaniel would have done as much! Well, I should never think of giving my heart to a man because he could swim!
Julia Meville on debt
I have learned to think myself his debtor
Julia Meville on sorrow smiles
I have often dressed sorrow in smiles, lest my friends should guess whose unkindness had caused my tears
Julia Meville on a lover’s privilege
The contract which my poor father bound us in gives you more than a lovers privilege
Lucy on her purse
I shall not enter his name till my purse has received notice in form
Lucy on Delia
I should not be paid so well if my hero knew that Delia was near fifty
Name some of the books Lydia and Lucy talk of
The Reward of ConstancyThe Fatal Connection
Name some sentimental comedians
Richard Steele (Conscious Lovers - Indiana protagonist) Colley Cibber and George Farquhar
Lydia on not quarrelling
“we never had a quarrel!”
Lydia on men desiring her money
“Nor could I love the man who would wish to wait a day for the alternative”
Lydia on Faulkland’s loyalty
“Why a water-spaniel would have done as much”
Malaprop is all about verbal irony, but what is situationally ironic in her discourse?
“that she might reprehend the true meaning of what she is saying”
In what quote does Lucy respect simplicity as an entity?
So, my dear simplicity, let me give you a little respite”
What does Fag do in order to ensure his lies work?
“I always forge endorsements as well as the bill”
What triad from Jack best regards Faulkland’s attitude?
You are the most teasing, captious, incorrigible lover
Seasonality can be a dangerous thing, Acres postulates; what can it do?
“If it rains, some shower may even then have chilled her delicate frame! – If the wind be keen, some rude blast may have affected her”
What comedy of artifice is at play in Anthony’s volte face?
To please my father! Zounds! Not to please – O my father! –oddso!- yes- yes!”
Hydro…
It gives me the hydrostatics to such a degree
What does Acres say to renounce his claim to Lydia?
I give up all my claim. I make no pretensions to anything in the world’
What is the quote which features Anthony comically mirroring the quotes from others on stage?
Jack, how durst you insult the gentleman in a manner which his honour could not brook?’
Name some of the books Lydia and Lucy talk of
The Reward of ConstancyThe Fatal Connection
Name some sentimental comedians
Richard Steele (Conscious Lovers - Indiana protagonist) Colley Cibber and George Farquhar
Lydia on not quarrelling
“we never had a quarrel!”
Lydia on men desiring her money
“Nor could I love the man who would wish to wait a day for the alternative”
Lydia on Faulkland’s loyalty
“Why a water-spaniel would have done as much”
Malaprop is all about verbal irony, but what is situationally ironic in her discourse?
“that she might reprehend the true meaning of what she is saying”
In what quote does Lucy respect simplicity as an entity?
So, my dear simplicity, let me give you a little respite”
What does Fag do in order to ensure his lies work?
“I always forge endorsements as well as the bill”
What triad from Jack best regards Faulkland’s attitude?
You are the most teasing, captious, incorrigible lover
What comedy of artifice is at play in Anthony’s volte face?
To please my father! Zounds! Not to please – O my father! –oddso!- yes- yes!”
Hydro…
It gives me the hydrostatics to such a degree
What does Acres say to renounce his claim to Lydia?
I give up all my claim. I make no pretensions to anything in the world’
What is the quote which features Anthony comically mirroring the quotes from others on stage?
Jack, how durst you insult the gentleman in a manner which his honour could not brook?’
