Richard Brinsley Sheridan

(14 votes)   There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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(270 votes)   Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

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(236 votes)   Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

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(236 votes)   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
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

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(199 votes)   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

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(195 votes)   'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

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(163 votes)   An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

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(158 votes)   There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature -- the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

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(130 votes)   When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

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(119 votes)   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
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

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(108 votes)   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.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

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(106 votes)   Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

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(101 votes)   My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

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(100 votes)   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
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

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(100 votes)   Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion! and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting -- more lovely in sullenness! Then, Jack, her neck! O, Jack, Jack!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist

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