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Famous Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

 

Famous quotes made by the Irish dramatist and statesman, Richard Brinsley Sheridan. He was born in Dublin on October 30, 1751. He died on July 7, 1816 and was buried in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey in London.


The right honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.


Our ancestors are very good kind of folks, but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.


From the silence which prevails I conclude Lauderdale has been making a joke.


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


If it is abuse, why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another.


The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil by trying to explain it.


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


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


She looks like a mended statue, in which the connoisseur may see at once that the head is modern though the trunk's antique.






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The difference between a moral man and a man of honour is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked.

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