Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.”

“I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.”

“Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.”

“That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.”

“'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!”