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Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes


An Irish-born playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (30 October 1751 – 7 July 1816) was an Irish-born playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. For thirty-two years he was also a Whig Member of the British House of Commons for Stafford (1780–1806), Westminster (1806–1807) and Ilchester (1807–1812). Such was the esteem he was held in by his contemporaries when he died that he was buried at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. He is known for his plays such as The Rivals, The School for Scandal and A Trip to Scarborough.

Here are some famous quotes by  Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

An amiable weakness.

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A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.

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Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.

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The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

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The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

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The newspapers! Sir they are the most villainous - licentious - abominable - infernal - not that I ever read them - no - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.