Of the following, the class may throw out 20 quotations, except those marked with "**".

1. **...I have employed every possible art and care plainly to show the difference between the character of the hypocrite and that of the truly devout. For this purpose I have devoted two entire acts to prepare my audience for the advent of my scoundrel. He does not make the spectator waver for an instant; he is known immediately the marks which I have given him....
2. **...the comedy of Scaramouch makes game of Heaven and religion, about which these gentlemen care very little; but Moliere's makes game of them; it is that which they cannot tolerate.
3. ...what's a woman, when her Virtue's gone? A Coat without its Lace; A Wig out of Buckle; /A Stocking with a Hole in it...
4. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a mattter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself.
5. **Can any position be more wretched than that of the unhappy father who, when he clasps his child to his breast, is haunted by the suspicion that this is the child of another, the badge of his own dishonor, a thief who is robbing his own children of their inheritance.
6. Can't Heaven mete out discipline alone?/Our role is not to punish or reward,/But to forgive. Leave vengeance to the Lord.
7. Cover that bosom, which I must not see.  Souls can be harmed by objects of that kind; And they bring sinful thoughts to a man's mind.
8. Daughter, I have of late observ'd some Grief unusual in your Countenance, your Eyes that, like two open Windows, us'd to shew /The lovely Beauty of the Room
9. Give me some Musick to appease my soul.
10. I am afraid it is quite clear...that neither of us is engaged to be married to anyone.
11. I am--but am not eke alive. My Body's in the Cow, my Ghost is here.
12. I can't live/Without my Virtue, or without Tom Thumb./Then let me weigh them in two equal Scales,/In this Scale put my Virtue, that, Tom Thumb./Alas! Tom Thumb is heavier than my Virtue.
13. **I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence...
14. I feel bound to tell you that you are not down on my list of eligible young men, although I have the same list the dear Dutchess of Bolton has.
15. I have always been under the opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. Which do you know?
16. I know about your help and everything,/But my first duty is to save my King...
17. I pity any poor married woman whose husband is not called Ernest.
18. I remember only too well that I was forced to write your letters-for you I wrote always three times a week, and sometimes oftener.
19. I tell you madam it was all a trick.  He made the Giants first, and then he kill'd them.
20. If you are not, then you have certainly been deceiving us.  I hope you have not been leading a double life...
21. I'll swim through Seas; I'll ride upon the Clouds.
22. In short, you must obey the master's voice, /And show yourself compliant to my choice.
23. **It is, from beginning to end, full of abominations, and nothing is found in it but what deserves the fire. Every syllable in it is impious; the gesticulations themselves are criminal; and the least glance of the eye, the slightest shake of the head, the smallest step to the right or left, conceal mysteries which they find means to explain to my disadvantage.
24. My heart is not a heart of stone, you know.
25. Never speak disrespectfully of Society...Only people who can't get into it do that.
26. No. He died abroad; in Paris in fact. I had a telegram last night from the manager of the Grand Hotel.
27. Nothing will induce me to part with Bunbury, and if you ever get married, which seems to me extremely problematic, you will be very glad to know Bunbury. A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
28. Oh no! prevent the Match, but hurt him not. For, tho' I would not have him have my Daughter, Yet, can we kill the Man who kill'd the Giants?
29. Oh! I hope I'm not [perfect]. It would leave no reoom for development, and I intend to develop in many directions.
30. Open the Prisons, set the Wretched free, and bid our treasurer disburse six pounds to pay their debts.-Let no one weep today. Come, my fair Consort, sit thee down by me. Here seated, let us view the Dancers Sport; Bid them advance.
31. Pardon me, you are not engaged to anyone.  When you do become engaged to someone, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact.
32. Poor fellow.
33. Shut up again the prisons, bid my Treasurere/Not five three Farthings out-hang all the Culprits,/Builty or not--no matter.--Ravish Virgins, /Go bid the School-masters whip all their Boys;/Let Lawyers, Parsons, and Physicians loose,/To Rob, impose on, and to kill the World.
34. So all our pack upon the floor is case,/And all I boast is, that I fall the last.
35. So some cock-sparrow in a Farmer's Yard, Hops at the Head of an huge Flock of Turkeys.
36. So! There you go, in your exasperation!/ You never are content with moderation;/The path of reason's not for you, it seems,/And you fly back and forth between extremes.
37. **The reproach against me is that I have put pious terms in the mouth of my impostor. How could I avoid it, wishing to represent the character of a hypocrite accurately? It is sufficient, I think, that I show the criminal motives which make him say these things, and that I have eliminated from them the sacred terms, the bad use of which might have caused pain.
38. The symptoms are various, very various and uncertain.
39. They told me you wish to see me here.
40. Thus perish all the Bailiffs in the Land,/'Till Debtors at Noon-day shall walk the Street,/And no one fear a Bailiff, or his writ.
41. **Thus, no matter with what apparent decency comedies and novels attempt to clothe it, one cannot deny that even in that they are contrary to morality, since they impart a pleasant idea of depraved passion; and they even make it a heroic quality, for none appears with more glamour than that of these heroes of the theater and the novel.
42. To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. And I presume you know what that unfortunate movement led to?
43. To lose one parent...may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both parents looks like carelessness.
44. To please me you are ready to face this fearful ordeal?
45. Today it is our Pleaseure to be drunk,/And this our Queen shall be as drunk as Us.
46. Well, I am really only eighteen, but I always admit to twenty when I go to evening parties.
47. Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.  I happen to be serious about Bunburying. What on earth you are serious about I haven't got the remotest idea. About everything, I should fancy. You have such an absolutely trivial nature.
48. **What deceives many people on this point is that they do not become aware of the bad impressions which comedy makes on them, which leads them to conclude that it is not a temptation for them; but this is because they do not know that these temptations have various degrees, of which the first are not felt....Often one has been falling for a long time before one realizes it. The downfalls of the soul are slow; they have preparation and progress, and it often happens that one only succumbs to temptations because one has been weakened on occasions of little importance....
49. **When this principle is admitted, it follows that woman is specially made for man's delight. If man in his turn ought to be pleasing in her eyes, the necessity is less urgent, his virtue is in this strength, he pleases because he is strong. I grant you this is not the law of love, but it is the law of nature, which is older than love itself.
50. Why had'st thou not been born of Royal Blood?/Why had not mighty Bantam been thy Father? Or else the King of Brentford, Old or New?
51. within/Have now two Blinds before them--What is the Cause?
52. You can hardly imagine that [we] would dream of allowing our only daughter--a girl brought up with the utmost care--to marry into a cloak-room, and forman alliance with a parcel?
53. You cannot anger me, with all your spite;/All I want to do is what is right.
54. You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature...but I warn you...
55. Your scruple then is easy to allay: /Our secret will be safe with us alone,/And there's no evil if the thing's not known./The one offense lies in the public shame,/And secret sin is sin only in name.
56. Your soul will know eternal bliss,/Wedded to such a handsome man as this.
57. You're a maid, like many of your kind,/Too saucy and too quick to speak your mind/Nobody asks you, but you will be heard.