Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes & Quotations

Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

» When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.

» The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

» Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion! and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting -- more lovely in sullenness! Then, Jack, her neck! O, Jack, Jack!

» I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman: for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning; nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments; but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice: then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries: this is what I would have a woman know; and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it.

» Madam, 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 leaves, will long for the fruit at last.

» 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.

» He is the very pineapple of politeness!

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

» He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

» Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

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