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Ay, ay, the best terms will g...

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

Richard Sheridan 140 quotes

That old man dies prematurely...

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

Richard Sheridan 140 quotes

My valor is certainly going, ...

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

Richard Sheridan 140 quotes

I hate to see prudence clingi...

I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree.

Richard Sheridan 140 quotes

For in religion as in friends...

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

Richard Sheridan 140 quotes

He is the very pineapple of p...

He is the very pineapple of politeness.

Richard Sheridan 140 quotes

Modesty is a quality in a lov...

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Richard Sheridan 140 quotes

You write with ease, to show ...

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

Richard Sheridan 140 quotes

Justice-august and pure, the ...

Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind rises; where the heart expands; where the countenance is ever placid and benign; where her favorite attitude is to stoop to the unfortunate; to hear their cry and to help them; to rescue and relieve; to succor and save; majestic, from its mercy; venerable, from its Lutility; uplifted, without pride; firm without obduracy; beneficent in each preference; lovely, though in her frown!

Richard Sheridan 140 quotes

Be just before you are genero...

Be just before you are generous.

Richard Sheridan 140 quotes

I'm called away by particular...

I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.

Richard Sheridan 140 quotes

You write with ease to show y...

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

Richard Sheridan 140 quotes

Pity those whom nature abuses...

Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.

Richard Sheridan 140 quotes

To smile at the jest which pla...

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

Richard Sheridan 140 quotes

They only babble who practise ...

They only babble who practise not reflection.

Richard Sheridan 140 quotes

I ne'er could any lustre see I...

I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.

Richard Sheridan 140 quotes

The most threatened group in h...

The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.

Richard Sheridan 140 quotes

If I reprehend anything in thi...

If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

Richard Sheridan 140 quotes

There is nothing on earth so e...

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 Sheridan 140 quotes

I open with a clock striking, ...

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

Richard Sheridan 140 quotes

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....