More from Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  1. Never say more than is necessary.
  2. He is the very pineapple of politeness!
  3. A progeny of learning.
  4. If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
  5. 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
  6. As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
  7. The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
  8. 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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