Best 108 quotes of Richard Brinsley Sheridan on MyQuotes

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

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years.

A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.

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

An apothecary should never be out of spirits.

An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

An oyster may be crossed in love.

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

A progeny of learning.

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

As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.

A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes.

A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.

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

Believe not each accusing tongue, As most weak persons do; But still believe that story wrong, Which ought not to be true!

Believe that story false that ought not to be true.

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

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

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, - by deeds, not years.

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

Easy writings curse is hard reading.

Easy writing's curst hard reading.

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

Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Good reading makes for damn hard writing.

Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.

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

Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.

He is the very pineapple of politeness.

Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette -throw "Roderick Random" into the closet -put "The Innocent Adultery" into "The Whole Duty of Man"; thrust "Lord Aimworth" under the sofa! cram "Ovid" behind the bolster; there -put "The Man of Feeling" into your pocket. Now for them.

Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here 's to the widow of fifty; Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant queen, And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty! Let the toast pass; Drink to the lass; I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.

Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses

Humanity always becomes a conqueror.

If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

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

If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame as well as game, there are many who would thank them for the bill.

If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.

I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular-bred physician.

I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree.

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.

I loved him for himself alone.

In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers.

I ne'er could any luster see in eyes that would not look on me.

I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.