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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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“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.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) first seen 1779 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘The Critic’ (1779) act 1, sc. 1
“Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.”
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“Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) first seen 1779 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘The Critic’ (1779) act 1, sc. 2
“A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) said by 1816 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed!”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) said by 1816 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) said by 1816 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) said by 1816 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) said by 1816 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Inconsolable to the minuet in Ariadne.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) said by 1816 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Spanish fleet thou canst not see, because—it is not yet in sight!”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) said by 1816 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wish, sir, you would practice this without me. I can't stay dying here all night.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) said by 1816 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing’s vile hard reading.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) said by 1816 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘Clio’s Protest’. T. Moore ‘Life of Sheridan’ (1825) 1, 55
“If it is abuse,—why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) first seen 1779 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘The Critic’ (1779) act 1, sc. 1
“I wish sir, you would practise this without me. I can’t stay dying here all night. O Lord, Sir—when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) first seen 1779 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘The Critic’ (1779) act 3, sc. 1
“I was struck all of a heap.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) first seen 1775 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘The Duenna’ (1775) act 2, sc. 2
“The throne we honour is the people’s choice.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) first seen 1799 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘Pizarro’ (1799) act 2, sc. 2
“’Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. He is the very pineapple of politeness!”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) first seen 1775 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘The Rivals’ (1775) act 1, sc. 2
“An aspersion upon my parts of speech!”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) first seen 1775 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘The Rivals’ (1775) act 3, sc. 3
“If I reprehend any thing in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) first seen 1775 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘The Rivals’ (1775) act 3, sc. 3
“She’s as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.”
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Recorded in: ‘The Rivals’ (1775) act 3, sc. 3
“My valour is certainly going!—it is sneaking off!—I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) first seen 1775 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘The Rivals’ (1775) act 5, sc. 3
“Mrs Candour: I’ll swear her colour is natural—I have seen it come and go—Lady Teazle: I dare swear you have, ma’am; it goes of a night and comes again in the morning.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) first seen 1777 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘The School for Scandal’ (1777) act 2, sc. 2
“I’m called away by particular business—but I leave my character behind me.”
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Recorded in: ‘The School for Scandal’ (1777) act 2, sc. 2
“Here’s to the maiden of bashful fifteen Here’s to the widow of fifty Here’s to the flaunting, extravagant queen; And here’s to the housewife that’s thrifty. Let the toast pass— Drink to the lass— I’ll warrant she’ll prove an excuse for the glass!”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) first seen 1777 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘The School for Scandal’ (1777) act 3, sc. 3
“Rowley: I believe there is no sentiment he has more faith in as that ‘Charity begins at home’.Sir Oliver Surface: And his I presume is of that domestic sort which never stirs abroad at all.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) first seen 1777 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘The School for Scandal’ (1777) act 5, sc. 1
“There is no trusting appearances.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) first seen 1777 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘The School for Scandal’ (1777) act 5, sc. 2
“A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) said by 1816 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On being encountered drinking a glass of wine in the street, while watching his theatre, the Drury Lane, burn down; in T. Moore ‘Life of Sheridan’ (1825) 2, 20
“The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) said by 1816 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in reply to Mr Dundas, in T. Moore ‘Life of Sheridan’ (1825) 2, 471
“Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.”
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“I will not say that there have been no instances of sedition; but I will affirm even that the evidence of these appears in so questionable a shape as ought to excite your suspicion. It is supported by a system of spies and informers, a system which has been carried to a greater extent under the present administration, than in any former period of the history of the country. ... [T]he government which avails itself of such support does not exist for the happiness of the people. It is a system which is calculated to engender suspicion, and to beget hostility; it not only destroys all confidence between man and man, but between the governors and the governed; where it does not find sedition, it creates it.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) first seen 1795 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speech in the House of Commons against the Treasonable and Seditious Practices Bill (5 January 1795), quoted in Speeches of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Vol. IV (1816), p. 23
“THEY, by a strange Frenzy driven, fight for Power, for Plunder, and extended Rule—WE, for our Country, our Altars, and our Homes.—THEY follow an ADVENTURER, whom they fear—and obey a Power which they hate—WE serve a Monarch whom we love—a God whom we adore...They call on us to barter all of Good we have inherited and proved, for the desperate Chance of Something better which they promise.—Be our plain Answer this: The Throne WE honour is the PEOPLE'S CHOICE—the Laws we reverence are our brave Fathers' Legacy—the Faith we follow teaches us to live in bonds of Charity with all Mankind, and die with Hope of Bliss beyond the Grave. Tell your Invaders this; and tell them too, we seek no Change; and, least of all, such Change as they would bring us.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) first seen 1803 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sheridan's Address to the People. Our King! our Country! And our God! (1803), quoted in Frank J. Klingberg and Sigurd B. Hustvedt (eds.), The Warning Drum. The British Home Front Faces Napoleon. Broadsides of 1803 (1944…
“'T is safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) said by 1816 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“He is the very pine-apple of politeness!”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) said by 1816 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villanous, licentious, abominable, infernal-- Not that I ever read them! No, I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) said by 1816 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“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! Let the toast pass; Drink to the lass; I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) said by 1816 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) said by 1816 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,--by deeds, not years.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) said by 1816 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816) said by 1816 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source