Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

It was an amiable weakness.

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

Had I a thousand daughters, by Heaven! I'd as soon have them taught the black art as their alphabet!

Egad I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!

"When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.

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

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.

Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.

Lauretta! ay, you would have her called so; but for my part I never knew any good come of giving girls these heathen Christian names: if you had called her Deborrah, or Tabitha, or Ruth, or Rebecca, or Joan, nothing of this had ever happened; but I always knew Lauretta was a runaway name.

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.

She’s as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

There is no trusting appearances.

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

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

I wish, sir, you would practice this without me. I can't stay dying here all night.