Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Playwright
1751-10-30
Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Never say more than is necessary.
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Never say more than is necessary.
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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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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.
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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.
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Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
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My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!
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Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
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The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.
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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
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The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
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A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge, or vicar.
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Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
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Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses.
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Be just before you're generous.
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I think the interpreter is the harder to understand of the two.
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Modesty-is a quality in a lover more praised by women than liked.
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Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.
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