Richard Brinsley Sheridan Men Quotations

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

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

The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.

A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.

Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette -throw "Roderick Random" into the closet -put "The Innocent Adultery" into "The Whole Duty of Man"; thrust "Lord Aimworth" under the sofa! cram "Ovid" behind the bolster; there -put "The Man of Feeling" into your pocket. Now for them.

It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.