Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridanwas an Irish satirist; a playwright and poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. He is known for his plays such as The Rivals, The School for Scandal, The Duenna and A Trip to Scarborough. For thirty-two years he was also a Whig MP in the British House of Commons for Stafford, Westminsterand Ilchester. He is buried at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. His plays remain a central part of the canon, and...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth30 October 1751
CountryIreland
They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
Through all the drama - whether damned or not -Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.
I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.
Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.
The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!
An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Be just before you are generous.
It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.