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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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“Easy writings curse is hard reading.”

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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“Those that vow the most are the least sincere.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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“Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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“Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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“He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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“‘Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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“He is the very pineapple of politeness!”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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“When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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“An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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“The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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“You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Debt