Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Topics: Humility
Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Topics: Failure
Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not easy to forget.
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Topics: Memory
‘Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Topics: Marriage
There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I’m sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Topics: Success
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Topics: Aging, Age
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