Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

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.

He is the very pineapple of politeness!

Enter LIEUTENANT O’CONNOR, disguised. Just. So, a tall — Efacks! what! has lost an eye? Rosy. Only a bruise he got in taking seven or eight highwaymen.

If I reprehend any thing in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

Through all the drama — whether damned or not — Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.

"Are you ashamed of having done a right thing once in your life?"

"Ah: Sir — consider I live by the Badness of my Character! — I have nothing but my Infamy to depend on! — and, if it were once known that I had been betray'd into an honest Action, I should lose every Friend I have in the world."

A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge, or vicar.

Rosy. Indeed! Good lack, good lack, to think of the instability of human affairs! Nothing certain in this world — most deceived when most confident — fools of fortune all.

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

Rosy. He says he’ll undertake to cure you for three thousand pounds. Mrs. Bri. Three thousand pounds! three thousand halters! — No, lovee, you shall never submit to such impositions; die at once, and be a customer to none of them. Just. I won’t die, Bridget — I don’t like death.

Just. There they go, ding dong in for the day. Good lack! a fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don’t like her daughter to resemble her in.

An oyster may be crossed in love!

You write with ease to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading.

Just. Why, zounds! will you hear me or no?