Richard Brinsley Sheridan Clever Quotations

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

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

O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.

The throne we honour is the people's choice.

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

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

If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

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

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

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

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

I was struck all on a heap.

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

He is the very pineapple of politeness.

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.

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

You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.

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