Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.”
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“The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.”
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“Never say more than is necessary.”
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“The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.”
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“I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me”
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“A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.”
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“Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.”
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“A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.”
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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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“Easy writing's curst hard reading.”
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“There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.”
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“That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.”
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“Easy writings curse is hard reading.”
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“There is no trusting appearances.”
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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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“There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.”
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“A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes.”
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“Believe that story false that ought not to be true.”
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“A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.”
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“Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, — by deeds, not years...”
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“There 's nothing like being used to a thing.”
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“There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.”
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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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“Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.”
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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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“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.”
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“No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?”
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“I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.”
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“As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.”
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