More from Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  1. Be just before you're generous.
  2. The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious - abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them-no-I make it a rule neve…
  3. An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.
  4. Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
  5. A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
  6. Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty; Here's to the flaunting, extravegant quean, And here's to the housew…
  7. The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
  8. You had no taste when you married me.

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