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A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.


Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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TAYLOR SHERIDAN The smell of roasting meat rose from the street stalls in a sizzle and a fiddle player begged for co...
SARA SHERIDAN Over the drop, a luminous pond lay below them like a pale magic lantern. It was as if the moon had p...
SARA SHERIDAN I felt pain in my neck after training on the Wednesday, but the England medical team felt I would be...
ANDREW SHERIDAN Julian's got a lot of experience and I am sure he will do a very good job.
ANDREW SHERIDAN It should be a great atmosphere. When the crowd's against you, you can really make use of it.
ANDREW SHERIDAN I always fancied myself in a Ford convertible with the roof down – if we ever get a sunny day. Rac...
SARA SHERIDAN They painted signs that read 'No dumping' and 'Save the fish' so the river would be a lot cleaner.
MICHELLE SHERIDAN Some of the most fascinating scenes in 'Unforgiven,' for me, is that scene with Gene Hackman...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I pride myself on making my own decisions, sir," she said. "I do not welcome gentlemen making them f...
SARA SHERIDAN I think I've always been a fighter in a healthy way.
NICOLLETTE SHERIDAN I have angel wings and a halo on my wrist, which I got done on my 30th birthday in memory of my brot...
SHERIDAN SMITH In 2005, I visited my home state of Texas, spending time on a ranch outside the town of Post. Then s...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Eva was very jealous because she's dying to come and I actually think she's going to be here at the ...
NICOLLETTE SHERIDAN It was as if she was a dream, like London, which he could not entirely grasp and of which he was not...
SARA SHERIDAN I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
DINAH SHERIDAN I think what they probably had was a couple of days (to get out). There are lots of skeletons but th...
MICHAEL SHERIDAN The smell of tobacco usually reminded Mirabelle of being a child - coming downstairs in the morning ...
SARA SHERIDAN It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse trader...
SARA SHERIDAN There was something indomitable about Maria – like Britannia. He’d heard that she kept her head ...
SARA SHERIDAN At first, there were not even 300 volunteers. They just kept hoping every year that it would get big...
MICHELLE SHERIDAN A vision of the little house in Soho flickered across his mind’s eye, his mother at a desk, writin...
SARA SHERIDAN It’s ridiculous – a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer...
SARA SHERIDAN The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish.
SARA SHERIDAN History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
SARA SHERIDAN It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse trader...
SARA SHERIDAN Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.
SARA SHERIDAN I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and pa...
SARA SHERIDAN So what if she wasn’t a pushover? So what if she had some mettle and didn’t wear her heart on he...
SARA SHERIDAN When she first moved to Brighton, the flat on the Lawns had felt luxurious and it had seemed as if s...
SARA SHERIDAN We were able to get them into foster homes within several hours.
CHELSEA SHERIDAN I'm very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express our...
SARA SHERIDAN Tim yelled something and just took off.
MIKE SHERIDAN I was fired ignominiously from the Junior School Choir for being so off tune that the choir mistress...
SARA SHERIDAN We could go bargain basement, with portable classrooms, but we felt this permanent building made mor...
SHERIDAN DOWLING I like you in green,’ he said. ‘You look as if you’re a very beautiful imp.’

SARA SHERIDAN It was clearly a lot more difficult in the field than in the office, where you could keep your dista...
SARA SHERIDAN The jungle is alive. It’s dangerous as a living nightmare and brimful of hostility. – On Starlit...
SARA SHERIDAN Some women will do anything for a glass of champagne and a safe bed.
SARA SHERIDAN After a minute, I look up and the boy named Leo is staring at me. I stare back, but he doesn´t look...
MIA SHERIDAN