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Richard Brinsley Sheridan quotes - page 3
I loved him for himself alone.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Believe not each accusing tongue, As most weak persons do; But still believe that story wrong, Which ought not to be true!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I ne'er could any luster see In eyes that would not look on me.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
No caparisons, miss, if you please Caparisons don't become a young woman.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You 're our enemy lead the way, and we 'll precede.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
While his off-heel, insidiously aside, Provokes the caper which he seems to chide.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Be just before you are generous.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I know you are laughing in your sleeve.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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