Quotes from Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

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

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

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

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

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

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

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.

Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

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

Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.