Writer Quotes by 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 valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Easy writing's curst hard reading.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I ne'er could any luster see in eyes that would not look on me.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same…

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There is no trusting appearances.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan