The works: With a biographical sketch
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Source: Sheridaniana: Or, Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Source: The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Biographical and Critical Sketch
Source: The works: With a biographical sketch
“Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!”
Source: The Rivals: A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden
“Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.”
“I ne'er could any luster see in eyes that would not look on me.”
“Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.”
Source: The works: With a biographical sketch
Source: Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: In Two Volumes
“Humanity always becomes a conqueror.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Memoir of His Life
“I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Biographical and Critical Sketch
“For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.”
Source: The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch
“A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Memoir of His Life
“Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Biographical and Critical Sketch
“Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Source: The school for scandal: a comedy in five acts
Source: Sheridaniana; or, anecdotes of the life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan; his table talk, and bon mots
Source: The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch
“They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Memoir of His Life
“The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.”
Source: The School for Scandal and Other Plays
“A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.”
Source: The Works of the Late ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Collected by Thomas Moore, Etc
“Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.”
“There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.”
Source: The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch
Source: Modern English Drama
“The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.”
“A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.”
“When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.”
“Never say more than is necessary.”
Source: The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch
“Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.”
Source: Dramatic works
“A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.”
Source: Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: In Two Volumes