Richard Brinsley Sheridan quotes

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands! View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I own the soft impeachment. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
An oyster may be crossed in love. View quote
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. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
A progeny of learning. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people,our retrospection will be all to the future. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Never say more than is necessary. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan