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

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

Be just before you are generous.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

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

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

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