RBRichard Brinsley Sheridan

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Life dates: 1751 AD — 1816 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1783 AD

Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.

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02c. 1783 AD

Inconsolable to the minuet in Ariadne.

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03c. 1783 AD

The Spanish fleet thou canst not see, because—it is not yet in sight!

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04c. 1783 AD

An oyster may be crossed in love.

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05c. 1783 AD

You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

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06c. 1783 AD

Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.

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07c. 1783 AD

I leave my character behind me.

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08c. 1783 AD

Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant quean, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass; Drink to the lass; I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.

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09c. 1783 AD

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.

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10c. 1783 AD

It was an amiable weakness.

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11c. 1783 AD

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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12c. 1783 AD

Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you.

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13c. 1783 AD

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

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14c. 1783 AD

While his off-heel, insidiously aside. Provokes the caper which he seems to chide.

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15c. 1783 AD

Such protection as vultures give to lambs.

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16c. 1783 AD

A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,—by deeds, not years.

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17c. 1783 AD

The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

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18c. 1783 AD

You write with ease to show your breeding, But easy writing 's curst hard reading.

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19c. 1783 AD

A circulating library in a town is an ever-green tree of diabolical knowledge.

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20c. 1783 AD

Believe not each accusing tongue, / As most weak persons do; / But still believe that story wrong / Which ought not to be true.

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21c. 1783 AD

But what fate does, let fate answer for.

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22c. 1783 AD

In religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

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23c. 1783 AD

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

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24c. 1783 AD

Our ancestors are very good kind o' folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

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