Richard Brinsley Sheridan · 91 pages
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“Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.”
― Richard Brinsley Sheridan, quote from The School for Scandal
“The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.”
― Richard Brinsley Sheridan, quote from The School for Scandal
“To pity, without the power to relieve, is still more painful than to ask and be denied.”
― Richard Brinsley Sheridan, quote from The School for Scandal
“If to raise malicious smiles at the infirmities or misfortunes of those who have never injured us be the province of wit or humour, Heaven grant me a double portion of dullness.”
― Richard Brinsley Sheridan, quote from The School for Scandal
“... if Charles is undone, he'll find half his acquaintance ruined too, and that, you know, is a consolation.”
― Richard Brinsley Sheridan, quote from The School for Scandal
“-'tis an old observation, and a very true one; but what's to be done, as I said before? how will you prevent people from talking?...”
― Richard Brinsley Sheridan, quote from The School for Scandal
“Alas! the devil's sooner raised than laid.”
― Richard Brinsley Sheridan, quote from The School for Scandal
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Born place: in Dublin, Ireland
Born date October 30, 1751
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“Anh ta cho rằng anh ta không thể sống mà không thuộc về một cái gì. Đa số người ta đã không nghĩ thế đó ư? Anh ta xác tín rằng anh ta phải thuộc về. Nhưng người ta không cần phải thuộc về ai hay cái gì hay nhóm nào. Thậm chí bạn không cần phải có một mối tình. Ai bảo bạn rằng bạn phải cần những thứ ấy - đó chỉ là xúi quẩy. Điều mà bạn cần đó là sự tự do. Điều mà bạn cần là yêu thương. Tất cả là vậy; đó là chân tính của bạn. Thế nhưng thực tế là bạn thú nhận rằng bạn cần được người ta khao khát. Bạn cần được hoan hô, bạn cần lôi cuốn người ta, bạn cần lũ khỉ tội nghiệp ấy chạy theo bạn. Rõ ràng bạn đang phí cả một đời. Tỉnh dậy đi! Bạn không phải cần những thứ ấy đâu. Bạn có thể hạnh phúc trọn vẹn được mà chẳng cần chúng.
Người chung quanh bạn sẽ chẳng vui gì khi nghe điều nầy - bởi vì một khi bạn đã mở mắt và hiểu ra, bạn sẽ làm người ta kinh hãi. Làm sao người ta kiểm soát được một người như thế? Hắn không cần mình; hắn không ngán những điều mình bình phẩm về hắn; hắn mặc kệ mình nghĩ hay nói gì về hắn. Hắn cắt phứt mọi dây nhợ; hắn không còn là con rối nữa. Điều đó không khiếp ư? “Thế thì chúng ta phải xử hắn. Hắn nói ra sự thật. Hắn hết còn kiêng nể ai; hắn không còn là người - khi hắn đã phá tan tình trạng nô dịch của hắn, phá tan ngục tù mà người ta giam hãm hắn.”
― Anthony de Mello, quote from Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
“AS C.S. Lewis once said, for Joe life here on earth was only the title and cover page. And now he has begun the greatest story of all, one that no one on earth has ever read in which ever chapter is better than the last.”
― Karen Kingsbury, quote from A Time to Dance
“If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.”
― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy
“-"I have kept the faith, Planchard."
-"Then you are the only man who has" Planchard said, "and it is an heretical faith."
-"They crucified Christ for heresy" Vexille said, "so to be named a heretic is to be one with Him.”
― Bernard Cornwell, quote from Heretic
“Please!" I stop my pacing, glare at him. "Is that all you can think about at a time like this?"
Gabriel rolls up on one elbow and smiles at me. "I'm a guy. It's what I think about all the time.”
― Carolyn MacCullough, quote from Once a Witch
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