Richard Sheridan

Easy writings curse is hard reading.

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

There never was a scandalous tale without some foundation.

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

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.

Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.

Easy writing's curst hard reading.

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, Ђ' by deeds, not years...

There 's nothing like being used to a thing.

An apothecary should never be out of spirits.

I leave my character behind me.

Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.

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

Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.

I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.

No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?

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.

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

The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.

Good reading makes for damn hard writing.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

Mr. Speaker. I said the honorable member was a liar it is true and I am sorry for it. The honorable member may place the punctuation where he pleases.

Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind rises; where the heart expands; where the countenance is ever placid and benign; where her favorite attitude is to stoop to the unfortunate; to hear their cry and to help them; to rescue and relieve; to succor and save; majestic, from its mercy; venerable, from its Lutility; uplifted, without pride; firm without obduracy; beneficent in each preference; lovely, though in her frown!

Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you.

We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.

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.