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 is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.
The throne we honour is the people's choice.
The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
I was struck all on a heap.
Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.