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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Be just before you are generous.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.
Written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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