Richard Brinsley Sheridan quotes and sayings
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan quotes
- Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
- I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.
- That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
- You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.
- 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.
- There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.
- Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
- 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
- I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.
- Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.