11 Famous Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
10/30/1751 - 7/7/1816
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Richard Sheridan
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About Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan 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, Westminster and Ilchester. Such was the esteem he was held in by his contemporaries when he died that he was buried at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. He is known for his plays such as The Rivals, The School for Scandal and A Trip to Scarborough.
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An oyster may be crossed in love! Who says
A whale's a bird?--Ha! did you call my love?--
He's here! He's there! he's everywhere!
An me! he's nowhere!
Oysters
Quotes, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan , Source: The Critic--A Tragedy Rehearsed (act III, sc. 1)
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Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen;
Here's to the widow of fifty;
Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean;
And here's to the housewife that's thrifty.
(Chorus:) Let the toast pass,--
Drink to the lass,
I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass.
Toasts
Quotes, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan , Source: School for Scandal (act III, sc. 3, song)
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Steal!--to be sure they may; and egad, serve your best thoughts
as gypsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make 'em pass
for their own.
Plagiarism
Quotes, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan , Source: The Critic (act I, sc. 1)
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You write with ease, to show your breeding,
But easy writing's curst hard reading.
Pen
Quotes, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan , Source: Clio's Protest, see Moore's "Life of Sheridan", vol. I, p. 55
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I believe there is no sentiment he has such faith in as that
charity begins at home"
And his, I presume., is of that domestic sort which never stirs
abroad at all.
Charity
Quotes, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan , Source: School for Scandal (act V, sc. 1)
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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!
All about love
Quotes, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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