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Famous Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes
“A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.”
“You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.”
“A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.”
“Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.”
“She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.”
“An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!”
“O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.”
“Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.”
“Be just before you are generous.”
“It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.”
“Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.”
“Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses”
“Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.”
“Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you.”
“Our memories are independent of our wills.”
“Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.”
“Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.”
“I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me”
“Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.”
“A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years.”
“I loved him for himself alone.”
“Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.”