Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
More Quotes from Richard Brinsley Sheridan:
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 Brinsley Sheridan
A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,by deeds, not years.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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