Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

11 Famous Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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“The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed”
Fatigue Quotes
“Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.”
Modesty Quotes
“An oyster may be crossed in love! Who says A whale's a bird?--Ha! did you call my love?-- He's here! He's there! he's everywhere! An me! he's nowhere!”
Oysters Quotes
Source: The Critic--A Tragedy Rehearsed (act III, sc. 1)
“A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.”
Libraries Quotes
Source: The Rivals (act I, sc. 2)
“Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty; Here's to the flaunting, extravagant quean; And here's to the housewife that's thrifty. (Chorus:) Let the toast pass,-- Drink to the lass, I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass.”
Toasts Quotes
Source: School for Scandal (act III, sc. 3, song)
“I own the soft impeachment.”
Confession Quotes
Source: The Rivals (act V, sc. 3)
“Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!”
Linguists Quotes
Source: The Critic (act I, sc. 2)
“Steal!--to be sure they may; and egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.”
Plagiarism Quotes
Source: The Critic (act I, sc. 1)
“You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading.”
Pen Quotes
Source: Clio's Protest, see Moore's "Life of Sheridan", vol. I, p. 55
“I believe there is no sentiment he has such faith in as that charity begins at home" And his, I presume., is of that domestic sort which never stirs abroad at all.”
Charity Quotes
Source: School for Scandal (act V, sc. 1)
“Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but speaks and kindles some thought of love! Then, Jack, her cheeks! her cheeks, Jack! so deeply blushing at the insinuations of her tell-tale eyes! Then, Jack, her lips! O, Jack, lips smiling at their own discretion! and, if not smiling, more sweetly pouting -- more lovely in sullenness! Then, Jack, her neck! O, Jack, Jack!”
All about love Quotes
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