Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes & Quotations

Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

» 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.

» Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling ''Peregrine Pickle'' under the toilette --throw ''Roderick Random'' into the closet --put ''The Innocent Adultery'' into ''The Whole Duty of Man''; thrust ''Lord Aimworth'' under the sofa! cram ''Ovid'' behind the bolster; there --put ''The Man of Feeling'' into your pocket. Now for them.

» Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

» 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!

» That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

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

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

» You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

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

» An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

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