12 Quotes by Richard Sheridan

Optimism is a fundamental choice of leadership.

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency

Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling ''Peregrine Pickle'' under the toilette --throw ''Roderick Random'' into the closet --put ''The Innocent Adultery'' into ''The Whole Duty of Man''; thrust ''Lord Aimworth'' under the sofa! cram ''Ovid'' behind the bolster; there --put ''The Man of Feeling'' into your pocket. Now for them.

Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.

I wish sir, you would practice this without me. I can't stay dying here all night

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.

The Right Honorable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts