 | Harold F. Rubinstein - 1928 - 1138 pages
...mischief. LADY SNEER. : Psha ! there's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature : rike, @& What's your opinion, Mr. Surface ? Jos. SURF. : To be sure, madam ; that conversation, where the spirit... | |
 | Ernest W. B. Hess-Lüttich - 1984 - 376 pages
...genommen50: LADY SNEER. Pshaw! there's no possibility of being witty - without a little ill nature - the malice of a good thing is the Barb that makes it stick - what's your opinion, Mr. Surface? SURFACE. To be sure madam - that conversation where the Spirit... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people. Saki (HH Munro) (1870-1916) Scottish author The malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) Anglo-Irish dramatist Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip.... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1991 - 516 pages
...Signs at the beginning of the play lie on the surface. Slander "plants a Thorn in another's Breast"; "the malice of a good thing is the Barb that makes it stick" (1.1; p. 364). By the end these pinpricks have become swords and bullets that penetrate to the quick.... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...1 1, 1918, Cleveland, Ohio. 2 There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature — The malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN, (1751-1816) Anglo-Irish dramatist. Lady Sneerwell, in The School for Scandal,... | |
 | Georgiana Spencer Cavendish (Duchess of Devonshire) - 2007 - 306 pages
...entertaining. Unlike Sheridan's School for Scandal, which makes vice appealing by showing its verbal ingenuity ("The malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick," Sheridan's Lady Sneerwell states),105 Garrick's Bon Ton strives to laugh gently at aristocratic excess... | |
 | Richard Brinsley Sheridan - 1915 - 100 pages
...mischief. LADY S. (L.). Pshaw ! — there's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature ; the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. What's your real opinion, Mr. Surface? JOSEPH (R.). To be sure, madam, that conversation where the... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrup - 1888 - 790 pages
...the mischief. Lady S. Pshaw ! — there's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature ; the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. What's your opinion, Mr. Surface? Joseph S. To be sure, madam ; that conversation where the spirit... | |
 | 1893 - 688 pages
...the mischief. Lady S. Pshaw! — there's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature ; the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. What's your opinion, Mr. Surface? Joseph S. To be sure, madam ; that conversation where the spirit... | |
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Well, I'll not debate how far scandal may be allowable ; but in a man, I am sure, it is always contemptible. We... 
