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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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• 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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• 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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• Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Character, Whole

  'The School for Scandal' (1777) act 2, sc. 2.

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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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• An apothecary should never be out of spirits.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Spirit, Should, Apothecary

  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.48

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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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• 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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• Easy writing's curst hard reading.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Reading, Writing, Easy

  Thomas Moore, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1826). “Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: In Two Volumes”, p.55

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Love, Sky, Soul

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1861). “The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan”, p.226

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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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• 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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