My valour is certainly going!—it is sneaking off!—I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands! - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

LADY TEAZLE. Sir Peter — Sir Peter you — may scold or smile, according to your Humour[,] but I ought to have my own way in everything, and what’s more I will too — what! tho’ I was educated in the country I know very well that women of Fashion in London are accountable to nobody after they are married. SIR PETER. Very well! ma’am very well! so a husband is to have no influence, no authority? LADY TEAZLE. Authority! no, to be sure — if you wanted authority over me, you should have adopted me and not married me[:] I am sure you were old enough.

I am compliance itself — when I am not thwarted; — no one more easily led — when I have my own way.