Richard Brinsley Sheridan : (5)

" A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar. " - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

" Be just before you are generous. " - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

" 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

" That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. " - Richard Brinsley Sheridan

" For if there is anything to one’s praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse – why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another! " - Richard Brinsley Sheridan