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
Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses
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.
Good reading makes for damn hard writing.
Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.
Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you.
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.
Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?
Our memories are independent of our wills.
Easy writing's curst hard reading.
Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.