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Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 – 1816)


Irish playwright and Whig statesman.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Through all the drama — whether damned or not —
Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
Sheridan quotes
Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,—disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.
Sheridan
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.




An oyster may be crossed in love.
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An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,—our retrospection will be all to the future.
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
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I ne'er could any luster see
In eyes that would not look on me.
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Be just before you're generous.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.




I know you are laughing in your sleeve.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Sheridan quotes
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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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.
Too civil by half.
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