Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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They are talkers who do not know how to think.

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The mind loses its charm if it is full of anger.

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Cut off the head of Gossip - the language will survive.

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The strongest passion is vanity. Save me from this passion, and I will rid myself of the rest.

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Victory over self is the only victory in which luck does not participate.

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The people dependent on the will of one man cannot survive, they do not even deserve to.

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He who seeks honors in life, he stands like a pathetic mourner at the gates of her temple, and without stirring, seeks to catch in the wretched breath of every passer-by a word of praise.

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When an old bachelor marries a young woman, he deserves her alone... What can we say! The crime itself already contains the punishment.

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A life well lived should be measured in deeds, not years.

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I do not like to see thought attached to the green ass of youth; it would be like ivy twisted around a bush that prevents its growth.