“The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.” Quote by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!” FeelsHandsCleverCowardicePalmsValorValourSneaking Out Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.” BeautifulPagesCleverMarginsNeatMeadows Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!” EyeCleverCountenanceUnforgiving Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.” LooksNewspapersClever Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!” IfsFriendshipAbuseClever Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.” WhiteLordMadCleverHeroinesSatin Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“The throne we honour is the people's choice.” PeopleChoicesCleverHonourThrones Author:Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.” MeanGodLiteratureWineRitualThrowingDestroyingCornCornyAltarsThrowing Away Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I judge a restaurant by the bread & the coffee.” JudgingCoffeeBreadRestaurants Author:Burt Lancaster