Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)

Be just before you are generous. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)

Deaths a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and Ill take kingdoms back from thine. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)

For if there is anything to ones 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. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)

Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)

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. (Richard Brinsley Sheridan)