Richard Brinsley Sheridan quotes - page 2

Tale-bearers are as bad as tale-makers. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
He is the very pine-apple of politeness.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I leave my character behind me.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There 's nothing like being used to a thing.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Steal to be sure they may and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheer necessity,the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The newspapers Sir, they are the most villanous, licentious, abominable, infernal Not that I ever read them No, I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Here is the whole set a character dead at every word.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I wish, sir, you would practice this without me. I can't stay dying here all night.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years...
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty; Here's to the flaunting, extravegant quean, And here's to the housewife that's thrifty. Let the toast pass - Drink to the lass; I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)
Such protection as vultures give to lambs.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Inconsolable to the minuet in Ariadne.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Too civil by half.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Spanish fleet thou canst not see, becauseit is not yet in sight.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan