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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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Learning
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An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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
Self confidence is the ground stone of success
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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
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
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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.
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The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit anotherĀ“s treachery.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There is no trusting appearances.
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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.
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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
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
Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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