Richard Brinsley Sheridan

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

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.

I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency.

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.