Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

Rosy. Efacks, I can do nothing, but there’s the German quack, whom you wanted to send from town; I met him at the next door, and I know he has antidotes for all poisons. Just. Fetch him, my dear friend, fetch him! I’ll get him a diploma if he cures me.

LADY TEAZLE. O to be sure she has herself the oddest countenance that ever was seen — ’tis a collection of Features from all the different Countries of the globe. SIR BENJAMIN. So she has indeed — an Irish Front — — CRABTREE. Caledonian Locks — — SIR BENJAMIN. Dutch Nose — — CRABTREE. Austrian Lips — — SIR BENJAMIN. Complexion of a Spaniard — — CRABTREE. And Teeth a la Chinoise — — SIR BENJAMIN. In short, her Face resembles a table d’hote at Spa — where no two guests are of a nation — — CRABTREE. Or a Congress at the close of a general War — wherein all the members even to her eyes appear to have a different interest and her Nose and Chin are the only Parties likely to join issue.

As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

Take our constitution, wanting certainly as it did many reforms, yet, practically, it afforded the best security that human wisdom had ever given to man.

Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

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

If it is abuse,—why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.

LADY TEAZLE. And I am sure I was a Fooll to marry you — an old dangling Batchelor, who was single of [at] fifty — only because He never could meet with any one who would have him. SIR PETER. Aye — aye — Madam — but you were pleased enough to listen to me — you never had such an offer before — LADY TEAZLE. No — didn’t I refuse Sir Jeremy Terrier — who everybody said would have been a better Match — for his estate is just as good as yours — and he has broke his Neck since we have been married!

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

I leave my character behind me.

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.

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands—we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.

I was struck all of a heap.