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Vote: | An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance! |
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Vote: | Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day. |
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Vote: | Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. |
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Vote: | Easy writings curse is hard reading. |
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Vote: | Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over. |
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Vote: | For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another! |
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Vote: | He is the very pineapple of politeness! |
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Vote: | Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word. |
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Vote: | I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me. |
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Vote: | My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands! |
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Vote: | Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. |
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Vote: | Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword. |
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Vote: | Take care; you know I am compliance itself, when I am not thwarted! No one more easily led, when I have my own way; but don't put me in a frenzy. |
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Vote: | That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. |
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Vote: | The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk. |
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Vote: | The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor. |
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Vote: | The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed. |
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Vote: | There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. |
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Vote: | There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so. |
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Vote: | There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature. |
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Vote: | Those that vow the most are the least sincere. |
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Vote: | Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. |
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Vote: | You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest. |
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Vote: | You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin. |
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan (October 30, 1751 – July 7, 1816) was an Irish playwright and Whig statesman.
Sheridan was baptized in Dublin on November 4, 1751, his father Thomas Sheridan being an actor-manager who managed the Theatre Royal, Dublin for a time, and his mother, Frances Sheridan, a writer. She died when her son was fifteen.
Sheridan was educated at Harrow School, and was to study law. However, his highly romantic elopement with Elizabeth Linley, and their subsequent marriage in 1773, put paid to such hopes. When he returned to London, he began writing for the stage. His first play, The Rivals, produced at Covent Garden in 1775, was a failure on its first night. Sheridan cast a more capable actor for the role of the comic Irishman for its second performance, and it was a smash which immediately established the young playwright's reputation. It has gone on to become a standard of English literature.
Having quickly made his name and fortune, Sheridan bought a share in Drury Lane. His most famous play The School for Scandal (1777) is considered one of the greatest comedies of manners in English. It was followed by The Critic (1779), an updating of the satirical Restoration play The Rehearsal.
Sheridan was also a Whig politician, entering parliament in 1780 under the sponsorship of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. A great public speaker, he remained in parliament until 1812, and was a leading figure in the party. He was also the great-grandfather of Lord Dufferin, third Governor General of Canada and eighth Viceroy of India.
External links
*rbsheridan.com: The only site solely dedicated to Sheridan on the web. Includes biographical timeline, information on his dramatic works, selections of his poems and speeches, and an annotated bibliography.
*Project Gutenberg e-texts of works by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
* Full text of Thomas Moore's Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honorable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Vol. 1, Vol. 2
...(more on Wikipedia)
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