Quotes Flashcards
Mrs Malaprop in 3.3 about Jack
He is the very pineapple of politeness
Moral at the end of the play- Julia, 5.3
Virtue would crown them a garland of modest, hurtless flowers
Jack on Faulkland in 2.1
“Now for my whimsical friend”
“Go gently gales”
“Poor Faulkland, five minutes since nothing on earth could give him a moments’s uneasiness”
“Stay Faulkland”
Faulkland on love
“The mutual tear that steals down the cheek of parting lovers is a compact that no smile shall live there until they meet again” 3.2
“If I loved you less, I’d never give you an uneasy moment” 3.2
“And with this device, I throw away all my previous doubts” 5.1
“Love. Tormentor! Fiend! Whose influence, like the moon’s, acts upon on men of dull souls makes idiots of them, but upon meeting subtler spirits betrays their course and urges sensibility to madness” 5.1
“The warm effusion of a too thankful heart” 3.2
Julia on Faulkland
“We are contracted before my father’s death” 1.2
“If he is captious, it is without dissembling” 1.2
“I do not love even his faults” 1.2
“This infirmity… Lost you the love of one who would have followed you in beggary through the world” 5.1
Love has been…
Love has been a masquerader since the days of Jupiter 1.1 Fag
Julia after Faulkland reveals in 5.1
“Has no such disaster happened as you related?”
Where is this quote from: “Her brain has been turned by reading!”?
Sir Anthony, 4.2
Quotes about Jack and self awareness
“Gently tongue” 3.3
“If she holds out now the devil is in it” 3.3
“Captain Absolute and Ensign Beverley are the same person” 1.1
“Who the devil are you sirrah, speak for your mother if you won’t for me!” 4.2
“You have not come out as anyone else have you?” 4.2
Sir; I am delighted to see you here 2.1
Malapropisms
He is the very pineapple of politeness 3.3
Illiterate him quite from your memory 1.2
Murder’s the matter, killing’s the matter, slaughter’s the matter, but he can tell you the perpendiculars 5.1
Malaprop when hearing of Lydia and a jack speaking in 3.3
This to his face!
So she has been in a passion has she?
Why thou vixen I have overheard you!
Old weather-beaten she-dragon, whoever can he mean by that?
Me sir. Me! He means me there!
Likeness between Sir A and Jack
“A circulating library is a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. It blossoms throughout the year” 1.2
“Few like Mrs Malaprop and the orange tree are rich in both at once” 3.3
“It’s his way. It’s all our ways” 4.2
“And obstinate, passionate self willed boy. Who can he take after?” 3:1
Likeness between Mrs M and Lydia
“She is something blind” 4.2 is like “she squints don’t she?”
“Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. I am certain I did hate your poor dear uncle before marriage” 1.2 is like:
“What signifies kneeling when you know that I must have you?” 4.2
Quotes about marriage and attitudes to it
He’ll mend surprisingly Sir A, 5.3
I wish they were harnessed together in matrimony 1.1
If you have the estate, you must take it with the livestock on it 2.1 Sir A
The fortune is saddled with a wife 2.1 Sir A