All Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes
- There's only one truth about war: people die. Die
- The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. Clever
- A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside. Allowed
- You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading. Breeding
- A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar. Bumper
- Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. Clever
- I was struck all on a heap. All
- Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory. Clever
- 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. Aversion
- He is the very pineapple of politeness. Clever
- An aspersion upon my parts of speech! Aspersion
- She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. Allegory
- Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. Acquaintance
- The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. Clever
- My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands! Certainly Going
- You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin. Beautiful
- An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance! Clever
- The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make… Abominable
- If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another! Abuse
- O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin. Always Goes
- The throne we honour is the people's choice. Choice
- Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. Abuse
- Those that vow the most are the least sincere. Inspirational
- When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of… Apprehension
- There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. Barb
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