Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Self confidence is the ground stone of success
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Age: 64 †
Born: 1751
Born: October 30
Died: 1816
Died: July 7
Dramaturge
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Dublin city
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
Self
Encouragement
Stone
Stones
Ground
Confidence
Success
More quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit anotherĀ“s treachery.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Never say more than is necessary.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
We will not anticipate the past so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I leave my character behind me.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast where love has been received a welcome guest.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan