181 Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; ’tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree.

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith – as in religion – and so are content with the surface.

There’s only one truth about war: people die.

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don’t like her daughter to resemble her in.

Alas! the devil’s sooner raised than laid.

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.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another’s breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

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.

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.