Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: playwright
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: October 30, 1751 - July 7, 1816

Topics

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I'm trying to help Apple Music be an overall movement in popular culture, everything from unsigned bands to video.

Jimmy Iovine

MusicCultureHelpTryingApple

I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.

Angela Duckworth

TalentPeopleBetterYouTryMore

My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.

Mary Oliver

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South Sudan has faced numerous challenges, which include professionalising the security sector, establishing ministries and parliamentary structures with the appropriate capacity for policy making and oversight, as well as improving community safety and access to justice.

Miroslav Lajcak

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If you train too much, it can rule your life, and I don't think that's healthy - for men or women.

Luke Evans

LifeWomenMenThinkYouTrain

I not only wanted to write when I was 7 and 8, but I sent stuff out when I was 7 and 8. I sent it out... and I couldn't believe that they would turn down my poems about faithful dogs.

Judith Viorst

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If you're talking to a man who wouldn't fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you're talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

Jordan Peterson

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It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.

Chris Van Hollen

SuccessFailureManagementYouLook

If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out mysteries in a sort of poetic realm, and hoping that if a story is honest, if you're dragging the deep truth out of yourself, then something good and profound might come out of it.

Colum McCann

GoodTruthYourselfStoryDeepYou

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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I think that witnessing ecological problems visible from space is one of the new and essential roles of astronauts.

Philippe Perrin

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So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red.

Tim Vine

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