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Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Had I a thousand daughters, by Heaven! I'd as soon have them taught the black art as their alphabet!
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You write with ease, to show your breeding,But easy writing's curst hard reading. — 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
There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
My hair has been in training some time.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Through all the drama - whether damned or not -Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Easy writings curse is hard reading.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Good reading makes for damn hard writing.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
To pity, without the power to relieve, is still more painful than to ask and be denied.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
— 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
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
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I leave my character behind me.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There is no trusting appearances.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
If Charles is undone, he'll find half his acquaintance ruined too, and that, you know, is a consolation.
— 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
If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There's only one truth about war: people die.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The throne we honour is the people's choice.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Our memories are independent of our wills.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
-'tis an old observation, and a very true one; but what's to be done, as I said before? how will you prevent people from talking? ...
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I am compliance itself - when I am not thwarted; - no one more easily led - when I have my own way.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
He is the very pineapple of politeness!
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I ne'er could any luster seeIn eyes that would not look on me.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I own the soft impeachment.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Self confidence is the ground stone of success
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Never say more than is necessary.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.
— 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!
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
An oyster may be crossed in love.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A progeny of learning.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
— 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.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Believe not each accusing tongue, As most weak persons do;
But still believe that story wrong,
Which ought not to be true! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Humanity always becomes a conqueror.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There 's nothing like being used to a thing.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I was struck all on a heap.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I loved him for himself alone.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan