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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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More quotes by 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
Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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
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
It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Steal! to be sure they may and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
