Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridanwas an Irish satirist; a playwright and poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He is known for his plays such as The Rivals, The School for Scandal, The Duenna and A Trip to Scarborough. For thirty-two years he was also a Whig MP in the British House of Commons for Stafford, Westminsterand Ilchester. He is buried at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. His plays remain a central part of the canon, and...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth30 October 1751
CountryIreland
You know it is not in my interest to pay the principal; nor is it my principal to pay the interest.
A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.
The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.
The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.
I own the soft impeachment.
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.