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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
Dramaturge
Librettist
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
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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.
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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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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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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
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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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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
In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers.
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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.
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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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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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
Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
