Richard Brinsley Sheridan quotes - Page : 2

" You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest. " # Debt

" An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance! " # Fathers # Politicians and Politics # Smile

" That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. " # Age and Aging # Freedom # Power

" When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies. " # Gossip # Freedom # Power

" Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last. " # Libraries # Kindness # Knowledge

" There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature -- the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick. " # Malice # Death and Dying # Books - Reading

" He is the very pineapple of politeness! " # Manners

" 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. " # Marriage # Friends and Friendship # Safety

" Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature. " # Pity

" Those that vow the most are the least sincere. " # Sincerity # Vow # Jesus Christ