Richard Brinsley Sheridan quotes

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Life #Flower #Garden

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Failure #Way #Succeed

Never say more than is necessary.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Inspiration #History #Life Changing Experience

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Clever #Numbers #Judging

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

#Character #Particular #Behinds

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

#Clever #Justice #Judging

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

#Miracle #Doe #Littles

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

#Clever #Wine #Men

The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Men #Quality #Charity

Easy writing's curst hard reading.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Reading #Writing #Easy

There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Scandal #Foundation #Tales

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Memories #Men #Long

Easy writings curse is hard reading.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Reading #Writing #Easy

There is no trusting appearances.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Trust #Appearance

I own the soft impeachment.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Confession

Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Party #Giving #People

There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Character #Years #Names

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.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Character #Credit #Fever

Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Believe #Stories #Scandal

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

#Art #Speak #Professors

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...
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Running #Mean #Years

There 's nothing like being used to a thing.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Used

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

#Clever #Heart #Passion

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Smile #Plant #Jest

Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Years #Long #Tree

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

#Nice #Use #World

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Uncles #Earth #Forget

No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Hope #Queens #Scandal

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.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Hope #Eye #Saws

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.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Party #Games #Purpose

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

#Character

I leave my character behind me.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Character #Behinds

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

#Spirit #Should

Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Hurt #Lying #Masters

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.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Hunting #Clothes #Hair

Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Ambition #Sovereign #Deities

Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Happiness #Exotic #Birth

It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Writing #Heart #Men

Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Prudence

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Perfect #Consoling #Awe

Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Rumor #Done #Scandal

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.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Games #Bills #Reputation

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.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Lying #Party #Currency

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.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Wine #Glasses #Rewards

They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Long #Virtue

Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Women #Heart #Writing

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Integrity #Heart #Credit

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

#Revenge #Virtue #Injury

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Sincere #Pretension

There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Addresses #Gains #Degrees

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.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Hate #Ivy #Tree

Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Wine #Men #Quality

Through all the drama - whether damned or not -Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Drama #Plot #Scene

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

#Eye #Looks

Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Comfort #Conscience

Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Guests #Welcome #Pity

A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Marriage #Wise #Husband

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Faith #Men #Thinking

Humanity always becomes a conqueror.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Humanity #Conqueror

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

#Daughter #Mean #Learning

Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
-- Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#Wit #Malice

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

#Physicians #Graves

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

#Agreement #Wonderful #Stage