181 Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.

Be just before you are generous.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.