Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

About Richard Brinsley Sheridan:

Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan is known for his plays such as The Rivals, The School for Scandal, The Duenna and A Trip to Scarborough. For thirty-two years he was also a Whig Member of the British House of Commons for Stafford (1780–1806), Westminster (1806–1807) and Ilchester (1807–1812). He was buried at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

SNEER. But, what the deuce, is the confidante to be mad too? PUFF. To be sure she is. The confidante is always to do whatever her mistress does- weep when she weeps, smile when she smiles, go mad when she goes mad.-Now, Madam Confidante! But keep you...

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core. Without them, we are empty.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Author Bio

  • NameRichard Brinsley Sheridan
  • DescriptionBritish politician
  • BornOctober 30, 1751
  • DiedJuly 7, 1816
  • CountryIreland
  • ProfessionPoet; Politician; Author; Librettist