Quotes from Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

Be just before you are generous.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

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.

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

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

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

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

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.

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

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

An oyster may be crossed in love.

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

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.

There's only one truth about war: people die.

I loved him for himself alone.

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

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

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.

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

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

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.

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