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
There 's nothing like being used to a thing.
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...
A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
Our memories are independent of our wills.
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you.
Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses
An oyster may be crossed in love.