She Stoops to Conquer: Major Quotes

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Explore some of the notable quotes from the play "She Stoops to Conquer." The quotes highlight witty remarks and insightful observations made by characters like Marlow, Tony, and others, offering a glimpse into the humor and social commentary present in the play.


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  1. She Stoops to Conquer: Major Quotes

  2. She Stoops to Conquer: Major Quotes "Let grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning." school-masters puzzle their brain, With Tony Lumpkin's song, Act I

  3. She Stoops to Conquer: Major Quotes "So I find this fellow's civilities begin to grow troublesome. But who can be angry at those assiduities which are meant to please him!" Hastings, about Hardcastle, Act II.

  4. She Stoops to Conquer: Major Quotes "Pardon me madam. I was always willing to be amused. The folly of most people is rather an object of mirth than uneasiness." Marlow, to Kate, Act II.

  5. She Stoops to Conquer: Major Quotes "True madam; those who have most virtue in their mouths, have least of it in their bosom." Marlow to Kate, Act II.

  6. She Stoops to Conquer: Major Quotes "I have lived, indeed, in the world, madam; but I have kept little company. I have been but an observer upon life, madam, while others were enjoying it." Marlow, to Kate, Act II.

  7. She Stoops to Conquer: Major Quotes "It's very odd, I can read the outside of my letters, where my own name is, well enough. But when I come to open it, it's all buzz. That's hard, very hard; for the inside of the letter is always the cream of the correspondence." Tony, about the letter that's arrived from Hastings, Act IV.

  8. She Stoops to Conquer: Major Quotes "Ha, ha, ha, I understand; you took them in a round, while they supposed themselves going forward. And so you have at last brought them home again." Hasting, to Tony, Act V.

  9. She Stoops to Conquer: Major Quotes "Prudence once more comes to my relief, and I will obey its dictates. In the moment of passion, fortune may be despised, but it ever produces a lasting repentance. I'm resolved Hardcastle's compassion and justice for redress." to apply to Mr. Constance, to Hastings, Act V.

  10. She Stoops to Conquer: Major Quotes "Pshaw, pshaw! This is all but the whining end of a modern novel." Mrs. Hardcastle, Act V.

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