Richard Brinsley Sheridan
13 quotations
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!
When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
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.
Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
Easy writings curse is hard reading.
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.