Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes
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Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
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Believe not each accusing tongue, As most weak persons do; But still believe that story wrong, Which ought not to be true!
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There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.
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Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
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Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.
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Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.
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I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.
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We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
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A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years.
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Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities.
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They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
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Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
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I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree.
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Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
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Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass; Drink to the lass; I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.
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I own the soft impeachment.
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Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
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Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
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There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
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I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.
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Self confidence is the ground stone of success
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There's only one truth about war: people die.
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A progeny of learning.
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Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
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The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
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There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
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A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.
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Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Born: October 30, 1751
- Died: July 7, 1816
- Occupation: Playwright
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