Frases de Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Richard Brinsley Sheridan , fue político del partido whig en el Reino Unido, dramaturgo reconocido del siglo XVIII y director de teatro.

Nació en Dublín, en la calle Dorset, n.º 12 ; y murió a la edad de 65 años.

✵ 30. octubre 1751 – 7. julio 1816
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Frases en inglés

“You're our enemy; lead the way, and we 'll precede.”

Act V, sc. i.
The Rivals (1775)

“Never say more than is necessary.”

Act II, sc. i.
The Rivals (1775)

“Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal

Act I, sc. i.
Fuente: The School for Scandal (1777)

“An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal

Act IV, sc. i.
The School for Scandal (1777)

“I leave my character behind me.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal

Act II, sc. ii.
The School for Scandal (1777)

“It was an amiable weakness.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal

Act V, sc. i.
The School for Scandal (1777)

“I loved him for himself alone.”

Act I, sc. iii.
The Duenna (1775)

“Believe not each accusing tongue,
As most weak persons do;
But still believe that story wrong,
Which ought not to be true!”

Reported in Nicholas Harris Nicolas, The Carcanet: a Literary Album, Containing Select Passages from the Most Distinguished English Writers (1828), p. 132.

“You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?”

Act IV, sc. ii.
The Rivals (1775)

“Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.”

Act II, sc. ii.
The Critic (1779)

“Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal

Act II, sc. ii.
The School for Scandal (1777)

“Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, — by deeds, not years…”

Pizarro (first acted 24 May 1799), Act iv, Scene 1. Compare: "Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours / Should not be numbered by years, daies, and hours", Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii.

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