Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes - Page 4

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• Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion! and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting - more lovely in sullenness! Then, Jack, her neck! O, Jack, Jack!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Love, Eye, Pouting

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1825). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Complete in One Volume”, p.28

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• 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

  Children, Ems, May

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch”, p.177

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• There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Character, Years, Names

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.128

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• A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Men, Thinking, May

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1825). “The Works of the Late ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Collected by Thomas Moore, Etc”, p.49

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• Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Hair, Giving, House

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• 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

  Party, People, Giving

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• An oyster may be crossed in love.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Love, Oysters, May

  'The Critic' (1779) act 3, sc. 1

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• I loved him for himself alone.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Love, One Love

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.61

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

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Lying, Circles, Gossip

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• In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Lying, Party, Should Have

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• If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Friendship, Clever, Abuse

  'The Critic' (1779) act 1, sc. 1

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• The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Looks, Newspapers

  'The Critic' (1779) act 1, sc. 1

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• I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Hunting, Hair, Clothes

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• 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

  Beautiful, Clever, Pages

  'The School for Scandal' (1777) act 1, sc. 1

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

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Hands, Cowardice

  'The Rivals' (1775) act 5, sc. 3

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• Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette -throw "Roderick Random" into the closet -put "The Innocent Adultery" into "The Whole Duty of Man"; thrust "Lord Aimworth" under the sofa! cram "Ovid" behind the bolster; there -put "The Man of Feeling" into your pocket. Now for them.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Book, Reading, Men

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• 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

  Clever, People, Lasts

  'The Rivals' (1775) act 4, sc. 1

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• 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

  Rumor, Done, Scandal

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, J. W. Lake (1838). “The school for scandal: a comedy in five acts”, p.54

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

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Physicians, Graves

  St. Patrick's Day Act II, Sc. iv

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

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Daughter, Mother, Tongue

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1872). “The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan”, p.295, London : [s.n.]

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• I was struck all on a heap.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch”, p.67

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• Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Memories, Our Memories

  'The Rivals' (1775) act 1, sc. 2

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• If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame as well as game, there are many who would thank them for the bill.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Games, Bills, Reputation

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

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Marriage, Clever, Rivals

  'The Rivals' (1775) act 1, sc. 2

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• An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Speech, Aspersion

  'The Rivals' (1775) act 3, sc. 3

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