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"I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
"Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
"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, Playwright
"Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
"Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
"Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
"It's safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
"That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
"For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
"A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
"To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
"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"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
"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"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
"Persevere in virtue and diligence"
Plautus, Playwright
"The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money"
Plautus, Playwright
"The evil that we know is best"
Plautus, Playwright
"This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler"
Plautus, Playwright
"Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish"
Plautus, Playwright
"The poor man who enters into a partnership with one who is rich makes a risky venture"
Plautus, Playwright
"No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days"
Plautus, Playwright
"Let deeds match words"
Plautus, Playwright
"Laws are subordinate to custom"
Plautus, Playwright
"It well becomes a young man to be modest"
Plautus, Playwright
"It is well for one to know more than he says"
Plautus, Playwright
"How great in number are the little minded men"
Plautus, Playwright
"He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound"
Plautus, Playwright
"He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense"
Plautus, Playwright
"'He means well' is useless unless he does well"
Plautus, Playwright
"Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers"
Plautus, Playwright
"Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome"
Plautus, Playwright
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