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Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

1751–1816 Ireland

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (30 October 1751 – 7 July 1816) was an Irish playwright and Whig statesman.

Ireland
Playwrights
Poets
Politicians
Satirists

Also known as: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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79 quotes

I wish sir, you would practise this without me. I can’t stay dying here all night. O Lord, Sir—when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.

The Critic (1779)

I know you are laughing in your sleeve.

The Rivals (1775)

He is the very pineapple of politeness!

The Rivals (1775)

An oyster may be crossed in love.

Clio's Protest (1819)

My visits to you may possibly be misunderstood by my friends; but I hope you know, Mr. Addington, that I have an unpurchasable mind.

An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

The Rivals (1775)

There is no trusting appearances.

The School for Scandal (1777)

Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen;
Here's to the widow of fifty;
Here's to the flaunting, extravegant quean,
And here's to the housewife that's thrifty.
Let the toast pass —
Drink to the lass;
I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass.

The School for Scandal (1777)

I ne'er could any lustre see
In eyes that would not look on me;
I ne'er saw nectar on a lip
But where my own did hope to sip.

The Duenna (1775)

I believe there is no sentiment he has such faith in as that "charity begins at home"
And his, I presume, is of that domestic sort which never stirs abroad at all.

The School for Scandal (1777)

I leave my character behind me.

The School for Scandal (1777)

Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

You had no taste when you married me.

The School for Scandal (1777)

He was of opinion that the Press should be unfettered; that its freedom should be, as indeed it was, commensurate with the freedom of the People, and the well-being of a virtuous State: on that account, he thought that even one hundred libels had better be ushered into the world, than one prosecution be instituted which might endanger the liberty of the press of this country.

I own the soft impeachment.

The Rivals (1775)

Fortune, my friend, I've often thought,
Is weak, if Art assist her not:
So equally all Arts are vain,
If Fortune help them not again.

It was an amiable weakness.

The School for Scandal (1777)

I was struck all of a heap.

The Duenna (1775)

Mrs Candour: I’ll swear her colour is natural—I have seen it come and go—
Lady Teazle: I dare swear you have, ma’am; it goes of a night and comes again in the morning.

The School for Scandal (1777)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.