He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
– Richard Brinsley Sheridan
When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.
– 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
I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
– Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.