Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

Author Image

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Profession : Playwright

Birth : October 30, 1751

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

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan