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

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

   

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

   

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

   

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.

   

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

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!

   

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

   

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