Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes - Page 4

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

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Treasure, Kingdoms, Lips

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.77

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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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• Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Hurt, Lying, Scruples

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1775). “The Rivals: A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden”, p.32

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• A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Art, Speak, Professors

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1825). “The Works of the Late ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Collected by Thomas Moore, Etc”, p.250

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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 ne'er could any luster see in eyes that would not look on me.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Eye, Looks, Luster

  "The Duenna". Three-act comic opera by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Act I, Scene II), November 21, 1775.

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• Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Comfort, Conscience

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• Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Guests, Welcome, Pity

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.73

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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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• 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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• O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, White, Mad

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

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• A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Character, Prudes, Credit

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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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• Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Thinking, Two, Understanding

  'The Critic' (1779) act 1, sc. 2

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

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Funny, Obsolete, Term

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.16

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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.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Morning, Theatre, Attention

  1779 Mr Puff, of his tragedy 'The Spanish Armada'.The Critic, act 2, sc.2.

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• A progeny of learning.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Learning, Progeny

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.11

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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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• An oyster may be crossed in love.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Love, Oysters, May

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

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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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• Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Heart, Framed, Falsehood

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.65

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• Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Years, Long, Tree

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.10

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• If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Nice, Use, World

  The Rivals act 3, sc. 3 (1775)

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• As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Party, Games, Three

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Michael Cordner (2008). “The School for Scandal and Other Plays”, p.79, Oxford University Press

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

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Politics, Politician

  'The Duenna' (1775) act 2, sc. 4

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