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Our memories are independent of our wills.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
Dramaturge
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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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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Never say more than is necessary.
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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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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
Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
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.
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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I leave my character behind me.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
