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9 Quotes for 'Richard Brinsley Sheridan' in the Database.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes
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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!
Topic: All About Love
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Charity
Source: School for Scandal (act V, sc. 1)
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I own the soft impeachment.
Topic: Confession
Source: The Rivals (act V, sc. 3)
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A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of
diabolical knowledge.
Topic: Libraries
Source: The Rivals (act I, sc. 2)
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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of
the two!
Topic: Linguists
Source: The Critic (act I, sc. 2)
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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!
Topic: Oysters
Source: The Critic--A Tragedy Rehearsed (act III, sc. 1)
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You write with ease, to show your breeding,
But easy writing's curst hard reading.
Topic: Pen
Source: Clio's Protest, see Moore's "Life of Sheridan", vol. I, p. 55
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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.
Topic: Plagiarism
Source: The Critic (act I, 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.
Topic: Toasts
Source: School for Scandal (act III, sc. 3, song)
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