Irish - Playwright | October 30, 1751 - July 7, 1816
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
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That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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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!
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You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.
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Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
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Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.
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Be just before you are generous.
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