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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• '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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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