A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quote

Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quote

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quote

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

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quote

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quote

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quote

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quote

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quote

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quote

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

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quote

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

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

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 Quote

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quote

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quote

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

You know it is not in my interest to pay the principal; nor is it my principal to pay the interest.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quote

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quote