Ричард Бринсли Шеридан цитаты

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„Женщины управляют нами; постараемся же довести их до совершенства: чем более будут они знать, тем совершеннее будем и мы. От развития женского ума зависит и мужская мудрость.“

„Победа над самим собой — единственное торжество, в котором удача не имеет доли.“

„Истинное остроумие всегда сродни добродушию. Остроумие теряет цену, когда оно соединено со злостью.“

„Болтливы те, кто не умеет думать.“

„Самая могущественная страсть — тщеславие. Спаси меня от этой страсти, и я сам избавлюсь от остальных.“

„Передатчики сплетен нисколько не лучше, чем их сочинители.“

„Народ, зависящий от воли одного человека, не может сохраниться, да и не заслуживает этого.“

„Библиотека для чтения в городе — это вечнозеленое дерево дьявольского познания, и кто постоянно забавляется его листами, тот и до плода дойдет.“

„Все мы игрушки в руках судьбы.“

„Необходимость — подлинная мать искусства, которая сродни фантазии.“

„Жизнь, прожитую достойно, следует измерять деяниями, а не годами.“

„Срежь Сплетне голову — язык живет.“

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

“A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.”

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

“A bumper of good liquor
Will end a contest quicker
Than justice, judge, or vicar.”

“As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.”

“No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?”

“Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!”

“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 housewife that's thrifty.
Let the toast pass —
Drink to the lass;
I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass.”

“You had no taste when you married me.”

“A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.”

“No caparisons, miss, if you please. Caparisons don't become a young woman.”

“I own the soft impeachment.”

“An oyster may be crossed in love.”

“I wish, sir, you would practice this without me. I can't stay dying here all night.”

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

“Such protection as vultures give to lambs.”

“There's nothing like being used to a thing.”

“Inconsolable to the minuet in Ariadne.”

“Had I a heart for falsehood framed,
I ne'er could injure you.”

“Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.”

“I know you are laughing in your sleeve.”

“Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.”

“You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.”

“Too civil by half.”

“A progeny of learning.”

“My valour is certainly going!”

“Take our constitution, wanting certainly as it did many reforms, yet, practically, it afforded the best security that human wisdom had ever given to man.”