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A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
Dramaturge
Librettist
Playwright
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Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
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Our memories are independent of our wills.
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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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When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.
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Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
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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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
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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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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.
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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
An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
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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
A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Self confidence is the ground stone of success
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.
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