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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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!


— Richard Brinsley Sheridan


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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.


— Richard Brinsley Sheridan


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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.


— Richard Brinsley Sheridan


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


— Richard Brinsley Sheridan


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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.


— Richard Brinsley Sheridan


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Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.


— Richard Brinsley Sheridan


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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.


— Richard Brinsley Sheridan


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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.


— Richard Brinsley Sheridan


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The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.


— Richard Brinsley Sheridan


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The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.


— Richard Brinsley Sheridan


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In 1780 Sheridan entered Parliament as the ally of Charles James Fox on the side of the American Colonials in the political debate of that year. B. 9 April 1876) m.

Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 1751 – 7 July 1816) was an Irish playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal Drury Lane. For thirty-two years he was also a Whig Member of the British House of Commons for Stafford (1780–1806) Westminster (1806–1807) and Ilchester (1807–1812). Such was the esteem he was held in by his contemporaries when he died that he was buried at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.

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