Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 – 1816)
Irish playwright and Whig statesman.
I ne'er could any luster see
In eyes that would not look on me.
Be just before you're generous.
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
I know you are laughing in your sleeve.
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, — by deeds, not years...
As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
He is the very pineapple of politeness!
Inconsolable to the minuet in Ariadne.
I own the soft impeachment.
You had no taste when you married me.
A bumper of good liquor
Will end a contest quicker
Than justice, judge, or vicar.
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
My valor is certainly going! — it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palm of my hands!
Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.
There 's nothing like being used to a thing.
It was an amiable weakness.