Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,—disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.[441:2]
The Critic. Act i. Sc. 1.
The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villanous, licentious, abominable, infernal— Not that I ever read them! No, I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
The Critic. Act i. Sc. 2.
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
The Critic. Act i. Sc. 2.
Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
The Critic. Act i. Sc. 2.
No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?
The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 1.