Frasi di Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“Non sei come Cerbero, tre gentiluomini in uno solo, non è vero?”

“Hai avuto cattivo gusto quando mi hai sposato.”

“Sii giusto prima di essere generoso.”

“Di certo non è contro natura ciò che non è fisicamente impossibile.”

“I nostri antenati sono certo brava gente, ma sono l'ultimo genere di persone che vorrei essere costretto a visitare.”

“La coscienza non ha a che fare con la galanteria più di quanto non ne abbia con la politica.”

“My valour is certainly going! — it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palm of my hands!”

“You're our enemy; lead the way, and we 'll precede.”

“Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.”

“Never say more than is necessary.”

“The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.”

“Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.”

“The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.”

“The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.”

“Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.”

“Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,—disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.”

“There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.”

“An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.”

“While his off-heel, insidiously aside,
Provokes the caper which he seems to chide.”

“The Spanish fleet thou canst not see, because—it is not yet in sight!”

“He is the very pineapple of politeness!”

“I leave my character behind me.”

“It was an amiable weakness.”

“An apothecary should never be out of spirits.”

“I loved him for himself alone.”

“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.”

“You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?”

“Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike — no bail, no demurrer.”

“I ne'er could any luster see
In eyes that would not look on me.”

“The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.”

“Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.”

“Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.”

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

“Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, — by deeds, not years…”