181 Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

An apothecary should never be out of spirits.

There 's nothing like being used to a thing.

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

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

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

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, — by deeds, not years...

My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!