Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes
An Irish-born playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
(1751 - 1816)
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"No one," says Jerome, "loves to tell a tale of scandal except to him who loves to hear it." Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure. Never make your ear the grave of another's good name.
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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
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A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.
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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 life spent worthily should be measured by deeds, not years.
[Deeds]
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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
[Marriage]
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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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Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
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Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
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Darkness is fled. - Now flowers unfold their beauties to the sun, and blushing, kiss the beam he sends to wake them.
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Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.
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Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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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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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
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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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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.
[Attention]
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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.
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