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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Had I a thousand daughters, by Heaven! I'd as soon have them taught the black art as their alphabet! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

You write with ease, to show your breeding,
But easy writing's curst hard reading. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

My hair has been in training some time. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Those that vow the most are the least sincere. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Through all the drama - whether damned or not -Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Easy writings curse is hard reading. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Good reading makes for damn hard writing. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

To pity, without the power to relieve, is still more painful than to ask and be denied. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

An apothecary should never be out of spirits. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A wise woman will always let her husband have her way. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I leave my character behind me. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There is no trusting appearances. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

If Charles is undone, he'll find half his acquaintance ruined too, and that, you know, is a consolation. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There's only one truth about war: people die. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The throne we honour is the people's choice. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Our memories are independent of our wills. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

-'tis an old observation, and a very true one; but what's to be done, as I said before? how will you prevent people from talking? ... — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I am compliance itself - when I am not thwarted; - no one more easily led - when I have my own way. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

He is the very pineapple of politeness! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

I ne'er could any luster seeIn eyes that would not look on me. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I own the soft impeachment. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Wit loses its point when dipped in malice. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Self confidence is the ground stone of success — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A man may think an untruth as well as speak one. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Never say more than is necessary. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

An oyster may be crossed in love. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Prudence, like experience, must be paid for. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A progeny of learning. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

An aspersion upon my parts of speech! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Believe that story false that ought not to be true. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Believe not each accusing tongue,
As most weak persons do;
But still believe that story wrong,
Which ought not to be true! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Humanity always becomes a conqueror. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There 's nothing like being used to a thing. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

I was struck all on a heap. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I loved him for himself alone. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope? — Richard Brinsley Sheridan