SSTC - Finish that quote Flashcards
Town vs country
“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?”
- Mrs Hardcastle, Act 1
Immediately characterises Mrs Hardcastle as vain and desiring to be part of the upper-class town folk.
“Ay and bring back…”
“vanity and affectation to last them the whole year. I wonder why London cannot keep its own fools at home.”
- Mr Hardcastle, Act 1
“Here we live in this old rambling mansion…”
“That looks for all the world like an inn, but that we never see company.”
-Mrs Hardcastle Act 1
“I hate such…”
“old fashioned trumpery”
-Mrs Hardcastle Act 1
“Add twenty to twenty and make money of that.” Mrs Hardcastle
Mr Hardcastle “…
“Let me see; twenty to twenty, makes just fifty and seven.”
-Mr Hardcastle Act 1
“Goodness! What a quantity of…”
“Superfluous silk hast thou got about thee girl!”
- Mr Hardcastle Act 1
“It’s a thousand to one that I shan’t like him;…”
“our meeting will be so formal, and so like a thing of business, that I shall find no room for friendship or esteem.”
- Kate Act 1
“Yet can’t he be cured of his timidity…”
“by being taught to be proud of his wife?…But I vow I’m disposing of the husband, before I have secured the lover.”
- Kate Act 1
“Among women of reputation and virtue, he is the modestest man alive ; but…”
“his acquaintances give him a very different character among creatures of another stamp.”
- Constance Act 1
“Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain…”
“with grammar, and nonsense and learning; good liquor I stoutly maintain / gives genus a better discerning.”
- Tony Act 1
“The daughter, a tall, traspesing, trolloping, talkative, maypole - “
“the son, a pretty, well-bred, agreeable youth that everybody is fond of.”
- Tony Act 1
“The landlord is rich, and going to leave off business; …”
“so he wants to be thought a gentlemen, saving your presence.”
- Tony Act 1
“My life has been chiefly spent in a college, or an inn…”
“in seclusion from that lovely part of creation that chiefly teach men confidence.”
-Marlow Act 2
“But in the company of women of reputation I never saw such…”
“an idiot, such a trembler ; you look for all the world as if you wanted an opportunity of stealing out the room.”
- Hastings Act 2
“An impudent fellow may counterfeit modesty…”
“but I’ll be hanged if a modest man counterfeit impudence.”
- Marlow Act 2
“Why, George, I can’t say fine things to them…”
“They freeze, they petrify me.”
- Marlow Act 2
“Mr Marlow - Mr Hastings - gentlemen pray be under no constraint in this house…”
“this is Liberty Hall, gentlemen, you may do just as you please.”
- Mr Hardcaslte Act 2
“I see this fellow wants to give us his company, and forgets that he’s an innkeeper…”
“before he has learned to be a gentlemen.”
- Hastings Act 2
“The devil, sir, do you think we have brough down the whole joiner’s company, or the corporation of Redford…”
“to eat up such a supper? Two or three little things, clean and comfortable will do.”
- Marlow Act 2
“Their impudence…”
“confounds me!”
- Mr Hardcaslte Act 2
“I shall be as much at a loss in this house as at a green and yellow dinner at the French ambassador’s table…”
“I’m for plain eating.”
- Hastings Act 2
“I have often told you, that though ready to obey you…”
“I yet should leave my little fortune behind with reluctance.”
- Constance
“Perish the baubles!…”
“your person is all I desire.”
- Hastings Act 2
“I have lived, indeed, in the world, madam; but I have kept very little company…”
“I have been but an observer upon life, madam, whilst others were enjoying it.”
- Marlow Act 2
