Quote

Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Deity
Deities
Sovereign
Ambition
Fame
Proud

More quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Image
Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Image
Our ancestors are very good kind of folks but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Image
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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Image
If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Image
A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Image
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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Image
Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Image
I leave my character behind me.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Image
A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Image
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Image
Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Image
Give them a corrupt House of Lords, give them a venal House of Commons, give they a tyrannical Prince, give them a truckling court, and let me have but an unfettered press. I will defy them to encroach a hair's breadth upon the liberties of England.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Image
A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Image
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
Image
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Image
I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Image
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
Image
Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Image
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Image
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