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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
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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
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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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When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
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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.
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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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Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
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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.
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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.
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A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
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I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.
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An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
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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.
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A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
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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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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
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The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan