Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

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

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.

A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.

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

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

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

Never say more than is necessary.

Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

Self confidence is the ground stone of success

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

Good reading makes for damn hard writing.

Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

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

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.

Be just before you are generous.

Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.

Our memories are independent of our wills.

Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind rises; where the heart expands; where the countenance is ever placid and benign; where her favorite attitude is to stoop to the unfortunate; to hear their cry and to help them; to rescue and relieve; to succor and save; majestic, from its mercy; venerable, from its Lutility; uplifted, without pride; firm without obduracy; beneficent in each preference; lovely, though in her frown!

Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.