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.


Life of Sheridan (1825), T. Moore

Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

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

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

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

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