Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another’s breast is to become a principal in the mischief. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing’s curst hard reading. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan