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Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes about Wine

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.

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.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1826). “Sheridaniana; or, anecdotes of the life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan; his table talk, and bon mots”, p.261

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

On being encountered drinking a glass of wine in the street, while watching his theatre, the Drury Lane, burn down; in T. Moore 'Life of Sheridan' (1825) 2, 20

Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities.

1777 Charles Surface. The School for Scandal, act 3, sc.3.