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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
Dramaturge
Librettist
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
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Our ancestors are very good kind of folks but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
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A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
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Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette -throw Roderick Random into the closet -put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster there -put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
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Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen Here 's to the widow of fifty Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, 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.
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There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
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The throne we honour is the people's choice.
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When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
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The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
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Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
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I leave my character behind me.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.
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