181 Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one’s conscience to be found out!

The throne we honour is the people’s choice.

To pity, without the power to relieve, is still more painful than to ask and be denied.

The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man’s good qualities.

There’s no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands – we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.

Wine does but draw forth a man’s natural qualities.

MARIA. For my Part – I own madam – wit loses its respect with me, when I see it in company with malice. –.

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