Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Believe that story false that ought not to be true.
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
Scandal
False
Ought
Story
True
Stories
Believe
More quotes by 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
A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Our memories are independent of our wills.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Never say more than is necessary.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
An aspersion upon my parts of speech!
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
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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, - by deeds, not years.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There is no trusting appearances.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
