An oyster may be crossed in love! - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Since, however, Sheridan’s biographers, from Moore to Fraser Rae, have shown that no authorised or correct edition of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL was published in Sheridan’s lifetime, there seems unusual justification for reproducing the text of the play itself with absolute fidelity to the original manuscript

It was an amiable weakness.

"When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.