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All Quotes by author - Richard Brinsley Sheridan
" A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar. "
End
Will
Liquor
" Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day. "
Had
Grow
Day
" Be just before you are generous. "
Generous
Before
Just
" Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. "
Than
Politics
Conscience
" Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine. "
Thou
Back
Lips
" Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over. "
Gardening
Miracles
Little
" 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! "
Friend
Always
Vanity
" He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. "
Imagination
Memory
He
" I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me. "
Behind
Business
Me
" 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. "
Mean
Question
Night
" 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. "
Great
Attention
Sun
" Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. "
Modesty
More
Quality
" My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands! "
Off
Feel
Going
" Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. "
Abuse
Who
Never
" 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. "
Time
Courage
Meet
" That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. "
Long
Lived
Old Man
" There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. "
Passion
Human
Heart
" 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. "
Thought
Uncle
Earth
" There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature. "
Little
Without
Witty
" The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed. "
Succeed
Fail
Determine
" Those that vow the most are the least sincere. "
Least
Vow
Those
" Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. "
Roses
Like
Garden
" You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest. "
Interest
Know
Pay
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