Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (31)

Birth:	30th October, 1751
Death:	7th July, 1816
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Politician, Statesman

About

Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Irish-born playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. For thirty-two years he was also a Whig Member of the British House of Commons for Stafford, Westminster and Ilchester.
Such was the esteem he was held in by his contemporaries when he died that he was buried at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.

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• A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Judge, End

• Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nothing, Physically

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

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Day, Best, Grow

• Be just before you are generous.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Before, Generous

• A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don’t like her daughter to resemble her in.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Tongue

• Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Conscience

• I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience – it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Morning, Sun, Attention

• Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I’ll take kingdoms back from thine.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Back, Lips, Thou

• Death’s a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Debt, Bailed

• I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don’t we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Topics in God

  Tags in Saying, Mean

• For if there is anything to one’s praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse – why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Friend, Anything, Why

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

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Little, Around, Over

• He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Topics in Memory

  Tags in Facts, Indebted

• I’m called away by particular business – but I leave my character behind me.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Character, Away

• Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Women, Modesty

• Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Abuse

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

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Topics in Memory

  Tags in Virtuous

• My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Feel, Certainly

• The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Law, Complain

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

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Judging, Number