Richard Brinsley Sheridan quotes

Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an Irish playwright, poet, and politician, renowned for his sharp wit and memorable comedies. His most famous works, such as "The Rivals" and "The School for Scandal," are considered classics of English theatre. He influenced generations of writers and remains celebrated for his enduring contribution to dramatic literature. Here are 100 of his quotes:

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I own the soft impeachment.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

An oyster may be crossed in love.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A progeny of learning.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people,our retrospection will be all to the future.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Never say more than is necessary.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan