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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.


— Richard Brinsley Sheridan


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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.


— Richard Brinsley Sheridan


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


— Richard Brinsley Sheridan


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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


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A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.


— Richard Brinsley Sheridan


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


— Richard Brinsley Sheridan


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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.


— Richard Brinsley Sheridan


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Be just before you are generous.


— Richard Brinsley Sheridan


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Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.


— Richard Brinsley Sheridan


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Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.


— Richard Brinsley Sheridan


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In 1780 Sheridan entered Parliament as the ally of Charles James Fox on the side of the American Colonials in the political debate of that year. B. 9 April 1876) m.

Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 1751 – 7 July 1816) was an Irish playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal Drury Lane. For thirty-two years he was also a Whig Member of the British House of Commons for Stafford (1780–1806) Westminster (1806–1807) and Ilchester (1807–1812). Such was the esteem he was held in by his contemporaries when he died that he was buried at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.

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