“There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.”
Source: The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch
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Famous Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes
“The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.”
“Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.”
Source: Dramatic works
“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.”
Source: The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch
“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.”