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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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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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.
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A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
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We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.
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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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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.
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Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
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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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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
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Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.
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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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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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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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