Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

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

If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning.

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.

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

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.