Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes
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It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A bumper of good liquor
Will end a contest quicker
Than justice, judge, or vicar.
Will end a contest quicker
Than justice, judge, or vicar.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
To a young lady:
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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.
Lady Sneerwell speaking
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,—our retrospection will be all to the future.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
While his off-heel, insidiously aside,
Provokes the caper which he seems to chide.
Provokes the caper which he seems to chide.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
No caparisons, Miss, if you please!—Caparisons don't become a young woman.
Mrs Malaprop speaking
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
As the Drury Lane Theater manager, drinking a glass of wine in a nearby cafeteria, while the theater burned down:
A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You write with ease, to show your breeding,
But easy writing's vile hard reading.
But easy writing's vile hard reading.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan