Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes - Page 2

Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.

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

I leave my character behind me.

It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

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

The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.

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

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

There is no trusting appearances.

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

Easy writings curse is hard reading.

Believe that story false that ought not to be true.

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

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.

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

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

Humanity always becomes a conqueror.

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.