Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

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

Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

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.

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

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

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.... 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.

He is the very pineapple of politeness!

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.