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• The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Integrity, Heart, Credit

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Michael Cordner (2008). “The School for Scandal and Other Plays”, p.260, Oxford University Press

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• Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Prudence, Paid

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1873). “The Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan”, p.77

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• She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Rivals, Headstrong

  The Rivals act 3, sc. 3 (1775)

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• There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Foundation, Scandal, Tales

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, J. W. Lake (1838). “The school for scandal: a comedy in five acts”, p.65

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• You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Reading, Writing

  "Clio's Protest" (written 1771)

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• I leave my character behind me.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Character, Behinds

  'The School for Scandal' (1777) act 2, sc. 2

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• It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Writing, Heart, Men

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• Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Drama, Plot, Scene

  "The Rivals". Comedy of manners by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Epilogue), January 17, 1775.

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• The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Animal, Wind, Risk

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• If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Wine, Glasses, Doe

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1826). “Sheridaniana; or, anecdotes of the life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan; his table talk, and bon mots”, p.261

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• A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Knowledge, Tree, Library

  1775 Sir Anthony Absolute. The Rivals, act 1, sc.2.

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• That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Memories, Men, Long

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• There is no trusting appearances.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Trust, Appearance

  'The School for Scandal' (1777) act 5, sc. 2

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• Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Nature, Abuse, Pity

  "The Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan".

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• Easy writings curse is hard reading.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Reading, Writing, Easy

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• Believe that story false that ought not to be true.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Believe, Stories, Scandal

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• Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Perfect, Consoling, Awe

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch”, p.66

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• Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Art, Parent, Invention

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (2014). “The Critic”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Long, Virtue

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1848). “The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.544

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• There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Witty, Littles, Tongue

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1825). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Complete in One Volume”, p.163

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• The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Numbers, Judging

  1779 Mr Puff.The Critic, act 1, sc.2.

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• A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Wine, Men

  On being encountered drinking a glass of wine in the street, while watching his theatre, the Drury Lane, burn down; in T. Moore 'Life of Sheridan' (1825) 2, 20

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• An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Clever, Eye, Countenance

  The School for Scandal act 4, sc. 1 (1777)

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• 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.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Uncles, Widowhood, Earth

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.10

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• Humanity always becomes a conqueror.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Humanity, Conqueror

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1848). “The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.526

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