"Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete:……" — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day."
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93 Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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- There's only one truth about war: people die.
- The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
- A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.
- You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
- A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
- Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
- I was struck all on a heap.
- Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
- 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
- He is the very pineapple of politeness.
- An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
- She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
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