A Quote by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Be just before you are generous. — © Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Be just before you are generous.
One ought to be just before one is generous
Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
I wonder why anyone would hesitate to be generous with their writing. I mean, if you really want to make a living, go to Wall Street and trade oil futures ... We're writers. We're doing something that is inherently a generous act. We're exposing ourselves to the muse and to the things that frighten us. Why do that if you're not willing to be generous? And paradoxically, almost ironically, it turns out that the more generous you are, the more money you make. But that's secondary. For me, the privilege of being generous is why I get to do this.
In working with Nick Cannon, he's such a generous guy, a generous actor, and he was very protective.
If you are not generous when it's difficult, you will not be generous when it's easy. Generosity is a function of the heart, not the wallet.
It's easy to be generous with money. Far harder to be generous with your time.
We need to be generous with the women following in our footsteps in the hope that they will be generous with us.
Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.
I don't know of a way to have a generous church without a generous pastor.
Don't ever be afraid of giving. Give. Give of your time, your forgiveness, your understanding, your love. Give of your money. Give to the creation, and you'll be given by the Creator. Be generous, and the Most Generous will be generous with you.
For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.
The people I worked for before I was doing 'Vampire Diaries' were very generous to me.
The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap. I promise you. It's just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don't buy it. Be smart. Be thoughtful and be generous.
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