Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.
A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
Be just before you are generous.
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.
Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Profession
Playwright
BirthDate
30 October, 1751
DeathDate
07 July, 1816
Country
Ireland
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