Top 133 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Last updated on December 24, 2024.
Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.
Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.
I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.
Be just before you are generous.
The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.
Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind rises; where the heart expands; where the countenance is ever placid and benign; where her favorite attitude is to stoop to the unfortunate; to hear their cry and to help them; to rescue and relieve; to succor and save; majestic, from its mercy; venerable, from its Lutility; uplifted, without pride; firm without obduracy; beneficent in each preference; lovely, though in her frown!
Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.
Our memories are independent of our wills.
She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.
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.
The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
Self confidence is the ground stone of success
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.
The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.
I leave my character behind me.
Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
Never say more than is necessary.
A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
There's only one truth about war: people die.
Easy writings curse is hard reading.
Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
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.
Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.
Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
Good reading makes for damn hard writing.
Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
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