Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

• He is the very pine-apple of politeness.

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• Though one eye may be very agreeable, yet as the prejudice has always run in favour of two, I would not wish to affect a singularity in that article.

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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 sometime.

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• Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge!… Depend upon it, Mrs Malaprop, that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.

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• What business have you, miss, with preference and aversion?… You ought to know, that as both always wear off, ’tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

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• Promise to forget this fellow to illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

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• A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.

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• A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

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• Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

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• Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

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• Be just before you are generous.

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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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• Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

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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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  Tags in Morning, Sun, Attention

• Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I’ll take kingdoms back from thine.

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  Tags in Back, Lips, Thou

• Death’s a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.

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• I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don’t we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

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• For if there is anything to one’s praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse – why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

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• Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

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  Tags in Little, Around, Over

• He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan (58)

Birth:	30th October, 1751
Death:	7th July, 1816
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Politician, Statesman

About

Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Irish-born playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. For thirty-two years he was also a Whig Member of the British House of Commons for Stafford, Westminster and Ilchester.
Such was the esteem he was held in by his contemporaries when he died that he was buried at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.

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