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Politiker, Dramatiker, "Die Nebenbuhler" (Irland, 1751 - 1816).

Richard Brinsley Sheridan · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Richard Brinsley Sheridan wäre heute 272 Jahre, 5 Monate, 19 Tage oder 99.517 Tage alt.

Geboren am 30.10.1751 in Dublin
Gestorben am 07.07.1816 in London
Sternzeichen: ♏ Skorpion

• I was struck all of a heap.

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• I wish sir, you would practise this without me. I can't stay dying here all night.

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• I'm called away by particular business-but I leave my character behind me.

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• If I reprehend any thing in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

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• If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

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• Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

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• In religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

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• Mrs. Candour: I'll swear her colour is natural - I have seen it come and go - Lady teazle I dare swear you have, ma'am; it goes of a night and comes again in the morning.

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• My valour is certainly going! It is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!

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• No caparisons, Miss, if you please! Caparisons don't become a young woman.

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• O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.

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• Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

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

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• Rowley: I believe there is no sentiment he has more faith in as that 'Charity begins at home'. Sir Oliver Surface And his I presume is of that domestic sort which never stirs abroad at all.

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• She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

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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.

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• The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands-we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.

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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 surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

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• The throne we honour is the people's choice.

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