Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I leave my character behind me.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Our memories are independent of our wills.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

An oyster may be crossed in love.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Easy writings curse is hard reading.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

He is the very pineapple of politeness.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There's only one truth about war: people die.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

An apothecary should never be out of spirits.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Believe that story false that ought not to be true.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

— 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

Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed:…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen,…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There 's nothing like being used to a thing.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan