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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan spirit
Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike — no bail, no demurrer.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan man
While his off-heel, insidiously aside, Provokes the caper which he seems to chide.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Such protection as vultures give to lambs.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan protection
Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, — by deeds, not years...
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan life
You write with ease to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan writing
An oyster may be crossed in love.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan love
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan men
Believe not each accusing tongue, As most weak persons do; But still believe that story wrong, Which ought not to be true!
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan believe
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan wit
Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan memory
A progeny of learning.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan learning
Never say more than is necessary.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I know you are laughing in your sleeve.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan you
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan knowledge
He is the very pineapple of politeness!
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan men
As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan ego
Too civil by half.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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 people
We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,—our retrospection will be all to the future.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan people
No caparisons, miss, if you please. Caparisons don't become a young woman.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan man
You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan men
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You're our enemy; lead the way, and we 'll precede.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan enemy
There 's nothing like being used to a thing.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan being
As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan art
My valor is certainly going! — it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palm of my hands!
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I own the soft impeachment.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan men
Through all the drama — whether damned or not — Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan women
I ne'er could any luster see In eyes that would not look on me.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan lust
I loved him for himself alone.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan love
A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge, or vicar.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan justice
Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan art
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan science
Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan bad
You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan art
You had no taste when you married me.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan you
Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan character
I leave my character behind me.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan character
Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty; Here's to the flaunting, extravegant quean, And here's to the housewife that's thrifty. Let the toast pass — Drink to the lass; I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan war
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan sin
Be just before you're generous.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan you
It was an amiable weakness.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan weakness
Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,—disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan children
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan art
The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan read
Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan art
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan think
A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan art
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan hope
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan possible
Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan age
Inconsolable to the minuet in Ariadne.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Spanish fleet thou canst not see, because—it is not yet in sight!
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan spanish
I wish, sir, you would practice this without me. I can't stay dying here all night.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan night
Wont you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan you
The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan art

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