Richard Brinsley SheridanBe just before you are generous. ✨ Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1781). The School for Scandal; a Comedy: As it is Performed at the Theatres-Royal, in London and Dublin, p.51371Humor
Richard Brinsley SheridanI loved him for himself alone. ✨ Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). The works: With a biographical sketch, p.61361Love
Richard Brinsley SheridanHe is the very pineapple of politeness. ✨ The Rivals act 3, sc. 3 (1775)352Hope
Richard Brinsley Sheridan'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. ✨ 'The Rivals' (1775) act 1, sc. 2352Reading
Richard Brinsley SheridanI'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me ✨ 'The School for Scandal' (1777) act 2, sc. 2341Time
Richard Brinsley SheridanWhere they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful. ✨ Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collect… ▶375Love
Richard Brinsley SheridanI was struck all on a heap. ✨ Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition… ▶343Thought
Richard Brinsley SheridanA man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside. ✨ On being encountered drinking a glass of wine in the street, while watching his theatre, the Drury… ▶376Life
Richard Brinsley SheridanThe Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts. ✨ Speech in reply to Mr Dundas, in T. Moore 'Life of Sheridan' … ▶334LifeTruth
Richard Brinsley SheridanSteal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own. ✨ Richard Brinsley Sheridan (18… ▶378Thought
Richard Brinsley SheridanAn unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance! ✨ The School for Scandal act 4, sc. 1 (1777)313Politics
Richard Brinsley SheridanThere is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. ✨ Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, C… ▶313HumanityLove
Richard Brinsley SheridanModesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. ✨ Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1825). The Works of the Late ... Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Collected by T… ▶303Love
Richard Brinsley SheridanDeath's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer. ✨ Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). The works: With a biographical sketch, p.55292Death
Richard Brinsley SheridanHad I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you. ✨ Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). The works: With a biographical sketch, p.65271Love
Richard Brinsley SheridanA fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. ✨ Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1872). The Dramatic Works of the Right Honourable Richard… ▶282Reading
Richard Brinsley SheridanShe's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. ✨ The Rivals act 3, sc. 3 (1775)338Death
Richard Brinsley SheridanThe surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed. ✨ Thomas Moore, Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1826). Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sherida… ▶349Life
Richard Brinsley SheridanAn oyster may be crossed in love. ✨ 'The Critic' (1779) act 3, sc. 1261Love
Richard Brinsley SheridanWhen 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… ▶284Love
Richard Brinsley SheridanFertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.251Reading
Richard Brinsley SheridanMy valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands! ✨ 'The Rivals' (1775) act 5, sc. 3329Hope
Richard Brinsley SheridanOur ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. ✨ 'The Rivals' (1775) act 4, sc. 1252Humanity
Richard Brinsley SheridanOur memories are independent of our wills. ✨ Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). The works: With a biographical sketch, p.103310Reading
Richard Brinsley SheridanTale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers. ✨ Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1828). Dramatic works, p.174274Sadness
Richard Brinsley SheridanIlliterate him, I say, quite from your memory. ✨ 'The Rivals' (1775) act 1, sc. 2319Politics
Richard Brinsley SheridanThe throne we honour is the people's choice. ✨ 'Pizarro' (1799) act 2, sc. 2287Humanity
Richard Brinsley SheridanMadam, 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 le… ▶309Time
Richard Brinsley SheridanGood reading makes for damn hard writing.277Reading
Richard Brinsley SheridanYou write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading. ✨ Clio's Protest (written 1771)266Reading
