181 Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.

Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.

Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.

O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.

The throne we honour is the people's choice.

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.

Self confidence is the ground stone of success