There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

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• Richard Brinsley Sheridan:

  Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your

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  That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long

• Richard Brinsley Sheridan:

  Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

• Richard Brinsley Sheridan:

  My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of m

• Richard Brinsley Sheridan:

  You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

• Richard Brinsley Sheridan:

  The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

• Richard Brinsley Sheridan:

  Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

• Richard Brinsley Sheridan:

  Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

• Richard Brinsley Sheridan:

  Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

• Richard Brinsley Sheridan:

  I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time,