Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

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

I own the soft impeachment.

My valour is certainly going! — it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palm of my hands!

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.

There's nothing like being used to a thing.

You're our enemy; lead the way, and we 'll precede.

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

You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?

No caparisons, miss, if you please. Caparisons don't become a young woman.

We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people, — our retrospection will be all to the future.

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

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

I know you are laughing in your sleeve.

A progeny of learning.

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.