Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Won, Roses, Garden

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Smile, Become, Another

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Good, Judge, End

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Mother, Her, Tongue

Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Death, Debt, Bail

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Good, Around, Miracles

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Memory, Facts, Indebted

Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Best, Grow, Obsolete

Be just before you are generous.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Before, Generous

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Nothing, Impossible, Physically

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Politics, Conscience

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Lips, Thou, Treasures

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!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Friend, Why, Another

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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

God, Saying, Mean

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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Time, Great, Morning

I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Business, Character, Away

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Women, Quality, Liked

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

Off, Hands, Valor

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Nature, Abuse, Pity

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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Time, Courage, Everything

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Long, Old, Memory

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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Greatest, Law, Learned

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Small, Judging, Themselves

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Succeed, Fail, Determine

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Heart, Envy, Human

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Playwright

Born: October 30, 1751

Died: July 7, 1816

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