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Letter "R" » Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes
«Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.»
«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.»
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(Orator, Playwright, Politician)
| Keywords:
forgot, set about, uncle
«I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience -- it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.»
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(Orator, Playwright, Politician)
| Keywords:
beget, description, eastern, eastern hemisphere, four o clock, gilding, hemisphere, hemispheres, Rising Sun, striking, The Rising
«Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.»
«'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.»
«Easy writings curse is hard reading.»
«Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.»
«My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!»
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(Orator, Playwright, Politician)
| Keywords:
ooze, oozed, oozes, oozing, palms, sneaking, valor
«An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!»
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(Orator, Playwright, Politician)
| Keywords:
disinherit, disinherited, disinheriting, unforgiving
«Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.»
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