R. B. Sheridan Quotes

He is the very pineapple of politeness.

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.

Women do act their part when they do make their ordered houses know them.

Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take.

I don't usually get to play sophisticated women. I usually do the old scrubs, chavs or slappers.

An aspersion upon my parts of speech!

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.

If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.

A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.

I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.

The only good Indians I ever saw were dead.

Always make your opponent think you know more than you really know.

It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other.

I don't care a damn for their guns, or you either, sir! What I want is the Southside Railroad!

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.

I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it's sushi.

I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.

Play the gayest tunes in your books, play them loud and keep on playing them, and never mind if a bullet goes through a trombone, or even a trombonist, now and then.

Never say more than is necessary.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

Nevertheless, life and death are mysterious states, and we know little of the resources of either.

Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrians Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.

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

I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.

Not having gone to drama school, I always feel like a bit of a fraud, but so far it looks as though I've not been found out.

Easy writing's curst hard reading.

There's only one truth about war: people die.

An apothecary should never be out of spirits.

For some reason, Hollywood seems to have painted me as a gorgeous vixen at times or the sweet girl.

What a fool I was! and yet, in the sight of angels, are we any wiser as we grow older? It seems to me, only, that our illusions change as we go on; but, still, we are madmen all the same.

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.

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.

The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout.

I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.

No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end.

A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

An oyster may be crossed in love.

Perhaps, she says (Madame de la Rougierre), Other souls than human are sometimes born into the world & clothed in human flesh.