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"30 Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 30 October 1751. Died: 7 July 1816 | Satirist | Playwright | Poet |

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Around Does Fertilizer Good
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Envy Heart Human Passion
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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.

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

Benefits Conferred Dies Lived
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Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Conscience More Politics Than
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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!

Certainly Feel Going Hands
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You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

Interest Know Pay Principal
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The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

Determine Fail Succeed Surest
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Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
Abuse Abuse Nature Never
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Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

Best Day Grow Had
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Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

Least Most Sincere Those
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There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

About Chooses Dear Duty
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Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
Come Garden Like Roses
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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.

Actor After Again Answer
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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!

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

Away Behind Business Character
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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
Being Little Possibility Without
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Be just before you are generous.

Before Generous Just You
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'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Aversion Begin Little Matrimony
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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

Certainly Impossible Nothing Physically
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Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.

Alike Bail Binds Death
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Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Liked Lover Modesty More
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Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.

Back Kingdoms Lips Take
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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Facts He His Imagination
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You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

Breeding Ease Easy Hard
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A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

Bumper Contest End Good
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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

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

Fatigue Indeed Judging Number
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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.

Another Become Jest Mischief
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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.

Considered Gentleman Glorious Greatest
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes & Sayings