Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Wisdom
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 1.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.