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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/6675/">Quotes by <em>Sheridan, Richard Brinsley</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (October 30, 1751 July 7, 1816) was an Irish playwright and Whig statesman. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension."

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"You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest."

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"The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed."

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"An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!"

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

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"When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies."

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"The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts."

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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!"

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"I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman: for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments; but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice: then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries: this is what I would have a woman know; and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it."

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"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."

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