Occupation: Playwright Birth: October 30, 1751 Death: July 7, 1816
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!.
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with..
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed..
Never say more than is necessary..
For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere..
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you..
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously..
Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women dep….
There's only one truth about war: people die..
Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth..
Believe not each accusing tongue, As most weak persons do; But still believe that story wrong, Which ought not to be true!.
Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases..
An apothecary should never be out of spirits..
Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful..
Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you..
No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?.
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge..
Prudence, like experience, must be paid for..
O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin..
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed..
Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation..