Richard Brinsley Sheridan quotes - page 3

It was an amiable weakness. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
I loved him for himself alone. View quote
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Believe not each accusing tongue, As most weak persons do; But still believe that story wrong, Which ought not to be true! View quote
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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature. View quote
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I ne'er could any luster see In eyes that would not look on me. View quote
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No caparisons, miss, if you please Caparisons don't become a young woman. View quote
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You 're our enemy lead the way, and we 'll precede. View quote
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While his off-heel, insidiously aside, Provokes the caper which he seems to chide. View quote
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Be just before you are generous. View quote
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Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword. View quote
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You had no taste when you married me. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
I know you are laughing in your sleeve. View quote
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Take our constitution, wanting certainly as it did many reforms, yet, practically, it afforded the best security that human wisdom had ever given to man. View quote
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Those that vow the most are the least sincere. View quote
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There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so. View quote
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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. View quote
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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me. View quote
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. View quote
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Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day. View quote
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I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere. View quote
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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth. View quote
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To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. View quote
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Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine. View quote
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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Image
Occupation: Irish-British Politician
Born: October 30, 1751
Died: July 7, 1816
Quotes count: 100
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