R. B. Sheridan Quotes

You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

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.

I was struck all on a heap.

I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.

A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure.

A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

Believe not each accusing tongue, As most weak persons do; But still believe that story wrong, Which ought not to be true!

As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.

Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.

Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!

A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years.

I loved him for himself alone.

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

Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses

A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

There is no trusting appearances.

The law don't like jazz clubs. No one wants anything to do with that kind of trouble.

Very often the characters people respond to best have little parts of reality they can relate to.

Scotland just isn't terribly Tory.

History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.

People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

I don't choose between my house phone and my mobile. I don't choose between my laptop and my notebook. And I don't intend to choose between my e-reader and my bookshelf.

To me, reading through old letters and journals is like treasure hunting. Somewhere in those faded, handwritten lines there is a story that has been packed away in a dusty old box for years.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.

As an historical novelist - there are few jobs more retrospective.

A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.

I drink to not giving a damn . . .

The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become

Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight

Art opens the fishiest eye . . .

Unlikely things are often true . . .

People can never work out where they know me from. They just come up and chat with me like mates.

I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare.

I'm always wearing Spanx, eating ice cream and feeling a bit lonely.

I swore on screen when I got the Olivier for 'Legally Blonde,' I was so surprised. Awards where the public vote mean a lot. I'm a big Twitter fan and like talking to people who support me.

I'm normally a burger and chips girl - such a cheap date.

I suffer a lot with nerves and stage fright.

Maybe I'm going from that tomboy-ish state to feeling a bit more womanly. I've enjoyed wearing some fancy frocks. It's nice once in a while.

Every girl wants to play Bridget Jones.

My brother is the lead singer of The Torn, and my parents are in a country duo.

I pull my eyelashes when I'm tired or thinking - it's a nervous thing.

When you don't understand something it's always OK to ask questions. That's really the mentality that I've had.

I don't feel like you can fully find the true character until you're in his wardrobe, on set, and really getting into the scene. And that's when you really find out who your character is.

You still need to understand what your fundamental and primary jobs are you have to make sure that you execute those before you can really dabble into something else.

The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

The precautions of nervous people re infectious, and persons of a like temperament are pretty sure, after a time, to imitate them.

But curiosity is a restless and unscrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.

If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell

Stop thinking of yourself as a victim. You were a target that is now no longer being hit.