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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
October 30, 1751 - July 7, 1816
Nationality: Irish
Category: Playwright
Subcategory: Irish Playwright

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

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

   

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

   

Be just before you are generous.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

   

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