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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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Our ancestors are very good kind of folks but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
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
Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Never say more than is necessary.
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
Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
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
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
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She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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
The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit anotherĀ“s treachery.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
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
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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan