Zitat des Tages von Richard Brinsley Sheridan:
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Richard Brinsley SheridanDeath's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.
Richard Brinsley SheridanHe is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley SheridanThe number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
Richard Brinsley SheridanFertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
Richard Brinsley SheridanYou write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.
Richard Brinsley SheridanWon't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
Richard Brinsley SheridanA bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.
Richard Brinsley SheridanA fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
Richard Brinsley SheridanYou know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.
Richard Brinsley SheridanModesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
Richard Brinsley SheridanThere is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
Richard Brinsley SheridanDo thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
Richard Brinsley SheridanI'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.
Richard Brinsley SheridanAy, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
Richard Brinsley SheridanCertainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
Richard Brinsley SheridanThere's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan