Sheridan

Famous quotes containing the word sheridan:

“Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.... 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.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

“My valour is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

“‘Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)