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Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling ''Peregrine Pickle'' under the toilette --throw ''Roderick Random'' into the closet --put ''The Innocent Adultery'' into ''The Whole Duty of Man''; thrust ''Lord Aimworth'' under the sofa! cram ''Ovid'' behind the bolster; there --put ''The Man of Feeling'' into your pocket. Now for them. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling ''Peregrine Pickle'' under the toilette --throw ''Roderick Random'' into the closet --put ''The Innocent Adultery'' into ''The Whole Duty of Man''; thrust ''Lord Aimworth'' under the sofa! cram ''Ovid'' behind the bolster; there --put ''The Man of Feeling'' into your pocket. Now for them.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Books And Reading

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse -- why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another! - Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse -- why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Critics And Criticism Irish Playwright

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Debt

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Failure inspirational Success

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion! and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting -- more lovely in sullenness! Then, Jack, her neck! O, Jack, Jack! - Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion! and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting -- more lovely in sullenness! Then, Jack, her neck! O, Jack, Jack!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature -- the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature -- the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Irish Playwright Malice

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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