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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame as well as game, there are many who would thank them for the bill.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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
If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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
The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
