Richard Brinsley Sheridan Short Quotes

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
An apothecary should never be out of spirits.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You're our enemy; lead the way, and we 'll precede.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
Mrs Malaprop speaking

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Mrs. Malaprop: Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Had I a heart for falsehood framed,
I ne'er could injure you.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I ne'er could any luster see
In eyes that would not look on me.

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

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike — no bail, no demurrer.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
O Lord, Sir—when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Spanish fleet thou canst not see, because—it is not yet in sight!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
No caparisons, Miss, if you please!—Caparisons don't become a young woman.
Mrs Malaprop speaking

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I'm called away by particular business—but I leave my character behind me.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I wish, sir, you would practice this without me. I can't stay dying here all night.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan