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The Rivals - Character Quotes
- Lydia Languish
- "You once commanded me
never to think of Beverley
again... I now obey you... I
renounce him forever"
Lydia to Mrs.M - Act IV, scene II
- "So! There will be no elopement after all!"
- "I see I have been
deceived by
everyone!"
- "O I should die with disappointment"
- "Our happiness is now as unalloy'd as general"
- "For both Lydia and Alisoun, reading, and making
use of that reading is thus a source of sometimes
transgressive and always transformative power"
David Cockburn
- "Will you...consent to forfeit... my paltry
wealth - that burthen on the wings of
love"
- Jack replies "Bring no portion to me but they love"
- Earlier "What, and lose two thirds of her fortune. You forget that my friend"
- Faulkland
- "some breeze might chill her delicate frame"
- "A minuet I could have forgiven but country dances!"
- "I must leave you"
- "There is no consistency in women"
- "Women should not sue for reconciliation, that should always come
from us. They should retain their coldness until woo'd to kindness"
- "My vile tormenting temper has made me treat her
so cruelly that I shall not be myself till we are reconciled"
- "Hell and the devil... O, she thrives
in my absence"
- I have been anxious, silent, pensive sedentary"
- "to show paces like a managed filly!"
- "This one object, whom I believe I love
beyond my life
- Jack Absolute
- "It was very unkind of her to be well
in your absence to be sure" Jack -
baiting Faulkland