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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Anglo-Irish dramatist

Lived from: 1751 - 1816

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagIreland

Born: 30 october 1751 Died: 7 july 1816

  • There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
  • Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
  • 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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  • 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
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  • An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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  • Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
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  • Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
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  • Easy writings curse is hard reading.
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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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  • He is the very pineapple of politeness!
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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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  • 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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  • Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
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  • My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!
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  • Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
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  • Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
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  • Take care; you know I am compliance itself, when I am not thwarted! No one more easily led, when I have my own way; but don't put me in a frenzy.
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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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  • The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
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  • The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
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  • There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
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  • Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
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What are the most famous quotes from Richard Brinsley Sheridan?

The two most famous quotes from Richard Brinsley Sheridan are:

  • "'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion."
  • "An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!"

When did Richard Brinsley Sheridan live?

Richard Brinsley Sheridan was born in 1751 and died in the year 1816.