Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an Irish playwright and Whig statesman.
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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
“Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine”
“The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed”
“Never say more than is necessary.”
“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.”
“Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you”
“There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.”
“Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.”
“Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.”
“That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.”