Quote#Remembrance
The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his…
Quote byRichard Brinsley Sheridan · 1751–1816
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Speech in reply to Mr Dundas, in T. Moore ‘Life of Sheridan’ (1825) 2, 471.
English (original)
The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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