Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotations | Page 2

Wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities.

There is no trusting appearances.

Easy writings curse is hard reading.

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

Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.

Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.

A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years.

I loved him for himself alone.

A progeny of learning.

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.