Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) was an Irish-born playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. For thirty-two years he was also a Whig Member of the British House of Commons for Stafford (1780–1806), Westminster (1806–1807) and Ilchester (1807–1812). Such was the esteem he was held in by his contemporaries when he died that he was buried at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. He is known for his plays such as The Rivals, The School for Scandal and A Trip to Scarborough.
“You write with ease, to show your breeding,But easy writing's curst hard reading.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“My hair has been in training some time.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“Had I a thousand daughters, by Heaven! I'd as soon have them taught the black art as their alphabet!”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“Never say more than is necessary.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
“A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan