181 Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.

Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.

There are a set of malicious, prating, prudent gossips, both male and female, who murder characters to kill time; and will rob a young fellow of his good name before he has years to know the value of it.

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

Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind rises; where the heart expands; where the countenance is ever placid and benign; where her favorite attitude is to stoop to the unfortunate; to hear their cry and to help them; to rescue and relieve; to succor and save; majestic, from its mercy; venerable, from its Lutility; uplifted, without pride; firm without obduracy; beneficent in each preference; lovely, though in her frown!

A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes.

Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.

Believe that story false that ought not to be true.