R. B. Sheridan Quotes

An oyster may be crossed in love.

Perhaps, she says (Madame de la Rougierre), Other souls than human are sometimes born into the world & clothed in human flesh.

It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.

I leave my character behind me.

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.

Happiness is an exotic of celestial birth.

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

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

If you're falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You've got nothing to lose.

Pity those whom nature abuses, never those who abuse nature.

Put your money where your mouth is.

What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.

Through all the drama - whether damned or not - Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot.

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.

Be just before you are generous.

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

A long time ago, when I was a young dancer in New York City, I fell in love with Jimmy Dean and he fell in love with me.

I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.

I'd like to rescue people in trouble, like Superman.

I do love Louboutin shoes, but I need to stop buying them because I don't go to many 'dos,' so they just line up. I'm normally in my trainers.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

I have angel wings and a halo on my wrist, which I got done on my 30th birthday in memory of my brother.

I remember everything about it—with an effort. I see it all, as divers see what is going on above them, through a medium, dense, rippling, but transparent.

I believe the era of the militant lady is back.

Without archives many stories of real people would be lost, and along with those stories, vital clues that allow us to reflect and interpret our lives today.

Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!

A sound so fine, there 's nothing lives 'Twixt it and silence.

Good reading makes for damn hard writing.

The hardest part about storytelling is knowing what happens in the end.

They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.

I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree.

There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.

I own the soft impeachment.

I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

Wit loses its point when dipped in malice.

I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.

In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers.

Believe that story false that ought not to be true.

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

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

Fame, the sovereign deity of proud ambition.

If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!