30 Quotations by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- 1. 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
- 2. An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
- 3. Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
- 4. Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
- 5. Easy writings curse is hard reading.
- 6. For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is a ...
- 7. He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
- 8. He is the very pineapple of politeness!
- 9. Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette -- t ...
- 10. Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses.
- 11. I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience -- it also marks the time, ...
- 12. I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learn ...
- 13. Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms ...
- 14. Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
- 15. My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my ...
- 16. Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but s ...
- 17. Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
- 18. Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your c ...
- 19. Take care; you know I am compliance itself, when I am not thwarted! No one more easily led, when I h ...
- 20. That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long ...
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