Richard Brinsley Sheridan quote: "I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience -- it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere."

The Right Honourable Gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for h...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

Easy writings curse is hard reading.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I don't think so much learn...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette --thro...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

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

I believe there is no sentiment he has such faith in as that charity begins at home" And his, I p...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

Never say more than is necessary.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his fa...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

He is the very pineapple of politeness!
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms ...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

Take care; you know I am compliance itself, when I am not thwarted! No one more easily led, when I h...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of ...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

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

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature -- the malice of a good thing is t...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
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...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but s...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

I own the soft impeachment.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as ...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it ...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long ...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.
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 ...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over an...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

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

Be just before you are generous.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mi...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

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

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

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

Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your c...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

An oyster may be crossed in love! Who says A whale's a bird?--Ha! did you call my love?-- He...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

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

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

Steal!--to be sure they may; and egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, disf...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies."
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good thing is th...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty; Here's to the flaunting...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over an...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

I wish sir, you would practice this without me. I can't stay dying here all night
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular - bred physici...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischi...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

You know it is not in my Interest to pay the Principal; nor is it my Principal to pay the Interest
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good thing is the...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

Be just before you are generous
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you ca...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing p...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very har...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understandi...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

Sometimes audiences want to see what we're doing to their world. It's our obligation sometim...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a me...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies tha...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

You know that saying, 'You broke it, you bought it'? With horses, if you don't make sure...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

Think about 'GoodFellas': It could be a textbook on how not to write a screenplay. It leans ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclu...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audien...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I've been fortunate to work with partners like Weinstein and John and Art Linson in developing &...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and in...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I think film cannot only teleport you to places you don't know, but it can help you see people y...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

Every girl wants to play Bridget Jones.
SHERIDAN SMITH

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

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have ...
SARA SHERIDAN

The friendship between officers is tarnished by the need for one or another to be promoted. The kind...
SARA SHERIDAN

I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month be...
SARA SHERIDAN

Every lawyer is an actor. The place where a lawyer's acting ability shines most is certainly in ...
JAMEY SHERIDAN

I've been so lucky with the people I've worked with, but I'm such a fan girl. When I mov...
SHERIDAN SMITH

Acting didn't come and just clip me on the nose.
JAMEY SHERIDAN

The Majors are the preachers, teachers and wisdom keepers, The Minors are your everyday highs, your ...
TONYA SHERIDAN

My father became the technical advisor for 'The Desert Fox,' with James Mason as Rommel. The...
JAMEY SHERIDAN

As a kid, I was a dancer in Dick Whittington, Snow White and Cinderella. When I was 14, I played Bab...
SHERIDAN SMITH

I live in Selfridges because it has everything under one roof. Liberty's is great for the same r...
SHERIDAN SMITH

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favou...
DINAH SHERIDAN

To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the gen...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

It's interesting that, given our culture has so many words that refer to women in a truly deroga...
SARA SHERIDAN

My identity has always been confused. Born in Edinburgh of a Scottish/Russian/Jewish mother and an E...
SARA SHERIDAN

Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the...
SARA SHERIDAN

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

Acting like someone you're not is exactly what it takes to realize you're capable of more than you e...
ROB SHERIDAN

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

I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

We're all so digital, but the '50s was the era of watches you had to wind. When Sir Edmund H...
SARA SHERIDAN

I thought city government was bad. It doesn't have anything on FEMA.
JIM SHERIDAN

The kids were going insane, 50. I thought someone was going to get injured.
JIM SHERIDAN

At the end of the movie people will wonder: Is this the real 50 Cent? Has he changed? Is he acting a...
JIM SHERIDAN

It's kind of like Greek tragedy,
JIM SHERIDAN

It was like I'd known him for a hundred years.
JIM SHERIDAN

There is no question it would have taken some of their luster away had we lost the base.
TONY SHERIDAN

The daily chocolate left Will in high spirits, so that some days he believed he could wheel with the...
SARA SHERIDAN

A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof. – On Starlit Seas
SARA SHERIDAN

She enjoyed the sights and sounds of the dockside – ports were places of freedom. – On Starlit S...
SARA SHERIDAN

Maria didn’t fear the sea but, as taught by her father, she respected its power. In her experience...
SARA SHERIDAN

A flock of small birds took off from the wall of the fort. They moved like a length of dark silk cau...
SARA SHERIDAN

People were consuming on average less calories after the war than during the war. Things were still ...
SARA SHERIDAN

When a woman gets to 30, you ask her about having kids. I don't mind - all my friends are settle...
SHERIDAN SMITH

The Best of Elvis Presley, Doris Day, Jerry Lee Lewis, Bill Hailey and the Comets, Frank Sinatra, Pe...
SARA SHERIDAN

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lo...
DINAH SHERIDAN

My family spans many world religions, ethnicities and nationalities. The truth is that I don't h...
SARA SHERIDAN

They wanted Guy Middleton instead of Kenneth More, and even Kay Kendall wasn't their first choic...
DINAH SHERIDAN

'Kramer vs. Kramer' is one of my favorite films, where you have a story that really juxtapos...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

The old London was fading from her memory. She no longer expected to see the shops that had been bom...
SARA SHERIDAN

There are so many ways to do research - even watching old Ealing comedies, watching people getting o...
SARA SHERIDAN

I just felt like I was getting some good looks. And our team is resilient. We never give up.
WILL SHERIDAN

There's been not enough made out of the ripple effect that the casinos bring. It extends into indivi...
TONY SHERIDAN

So we have a culture ? and one could say it's an advanced form of maritime culture ? that we've had ...
TONY SHERIDAN

The loss of this base would have devastated Connecticut.
TONY SHERIDAN

Despite all the good intentions of Electric Boat, they would have been looking at different options ...
TONY SHERIDAN

When you think about it, there are a lot of coffee houses.
TONY SHERIDAN

This eruption is much larger than the ones that are currently anticipated at Vesuvius. What would yo...
MICHAEL SHERIDAN

I am more one for the story, I think, than the action.
SARA SHERIDAN

He prefers his adventures second hand.
SARA SHERIDAN

When a chap is passionate, the readership can sense it.
SARA SHERIDAN

He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewh...
SARA SHERIDAN

His heart is pounding and when he kisses her it is as if the whole of Riyadh disappears – the wide...
SARA SHERIDAN

Muscat is like a mind-altering drug. A stroll in its streets is like getting drunk for the first tim...
SARA SHERIDAN

He cannot think. He can scarcely breathe. But he has no desire to either, he simply wants to keep ki...
SARA SHERIDAN

Kissing her is like drinking salted water, he thinks. His thirst only increases.
SARA SHERIDAN

The movies I make - the goal isn't a mass audience. They're not expensive films. So the atte...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

The smell of roasting meat rose from the street stalls in a sizzle and a fiddle player begged for co...
SARA SHERIDAN

Over the drop, a luminous pond lay below them like a pale magic lantern. It was as if the moon had p...
SARA SHERIDAN

I felt pain in my neck after training on the Wednesday, but the England medical team felt I would be...
ANDREW SHERIDAN

Julian's got a lot of experience and I am sure he will do a very good job.
ANDREW SHERIDAN

It should be a great atmosphere. When the crowd's against you, you can really make use of it.
ANDREW SHERIDAN

I always fancied myself in a Ford convertible with the roof down – if we ever get a sunny day. Rac...
SARA SHERIDAN

They painted signs that read 'No dumping' and 'Save the fish' so the river would be a lot cleaner.
MICHELLE SHERIDAN

Some of the most fascinating scenes in 'Unforgiven,' for me, is that scene with Gene Hackman...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

I pride myself on making my own decisions, sir," she said. "I do not welcome gentlemen making them f...
SARA SHERIDAN

I think I've always been a fighter in a healthy way.
NICOLLETTE SHERIDAN

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

In 2005, I visited my home state of Texas, spending time on a ranch outside the town of Post. Then s...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN

Eva was very jealous because she's dying to come and I actually think she's going to be here at the ...
NICOLLETTE SHERIDAN

It was as if she was a dream, like London, which he could not entirely grasp and of which he was not...
SARA SHERIDAN

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

I think what they probably had was a couple of days (to get out). There are lots of skeletons but th...
MICHAEL SHERIDAN

The smell of tobacco usually reminded Mirabelle of being a child - coming downstairs in the morning ...
SARA SHERIDAN

It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse trader...
SARA SHERIDAN

There was something indomitable about Maria – like Britannia. He’d heard that she kept her head ...
SARA SHERIDAN

At first, there were not even 300 volunteers. They just kept hoping every year that it would get big...
MICHELLE SHERIDAN

A vision of the little house in Soho flickered across his mind’s eye, his mother at a desk, writin...
SARA SHERIDAN

It’s ridiculous – a girl steps out, goes dancing, gets her hair cut, decides to spend the summer...
SARA SHERIDAN

The devil was always in the detail. And here the detail was certainly devilish.
SARA SHERIDAN

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.
SARA SHERIDAN

It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse trader...
SARA SHERIDAN

Reticence was clearly a national characteristic, even if the other person spoke French.
SARA SHERIDAN

I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and pa...
SARA SHERIDAN

So what if she wasn’t a pushover? So what if she had some mettle and didn’t wear her heart on he...
SARA SHERIDAN

When she first moved to Brighton, the flat on the Lawns had felt luxurious and it had seemed as if s...
SARA SHERIDAN

We were able to get them into foster homes within several hours.
CHELSEA SHERIDAN

I'm very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express our...
SARA SHERIDAN

Tim yelled something and just took off.
MIKE SHERIDAN

I was fired ignominiously from the Junior School Choir for being so off tune that the choir mistress...
SARA SHERIDAN

We could go bargain basement, with portable classrooms, but we felt this permanent building made mor...
SHERIDAN DOWLING

I like you in green,’ he said. ‘You look as if you’re a very beautiful imp.’ 
SARA SHERIDAN

It was clearly a lot more difficult in the field than in the office, where you could keep your dista...
SARA SHERIDAN

The jungle is alive. It’s dangerous as a living nightmare and brimful of hostility. – On Starlit...
SARA SHERIDAN

Some women will do anything for a glass of champagne and a safe bed.
SARA SHERIDAN

After a minute, I look up and the boy named Leo is staring at me. I stare back, but he doesn´t look...
MIA SHERIDAN

I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience -- it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

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I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience -- it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

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