English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

Richard Brinsley Sheridan quote: "A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her..."

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. Robert Green Ingersoll
It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaign to discredit my investigation, nor to waste time trying to prove negatives. Jim Garrison
And indeed if you think you're a genius at something, what you achieve is very much according to your expectations; if you think you're no good, you're not going to get anywhere. Diana Wynne Jones
Wislawa Szymborska quote: "Sometimes I really have a spiritual need to say something more..."
Sometimes I really have a spiritual need to say something more general about the world, and sometimes something personal. Wislawa Szymborska
At the risk of appearing disingenuous, I don't really think of myself as 'writing humor.' I'm simply reporting on the world I observe, which is frequently hilarious. Richard Russo
I never had a cat again. I still like cats, though I decided at the time that that poor little cat who climbed the tree and never returned would be my first and last cat. I couldn’t forget that little cat and start loving another. Haruki Murakami
Francis Parker Yockey quote: "The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a..."
The State becomes society or humanity on the ethical side, a production and trade system on the economic side. Francis Parker Yockey
Charlaine Harris quote: "Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eying us side by side..."
Hey, our hair's the same color," I said, eying us side by side in the mirror."Sure is, girlfriend." Eric grinned at me. Charlaine Harris
There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important. John Boorman
William Shakespeare quote: "Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal the mounting..."
Northumberland, thou ladder wherewithal the mounting Bolingbroke ascends my throne. William Shakespeare
Paul Krugman quote: "I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health..."
I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law. Paul Krugman
I'm not the type of person who goes through all this effort for a movie, and then doesn't care if anybody sees it. I want them to see it, and I want them to see it on the big screen. Andy Garcia
For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perceptio? David Hume
Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient. P. J. O'Rourke
Pseudoscience speaks to powerful emotional needs that science often leaves unfulfilled. It caters to fantasies about personal powers we lack and long for. Carl Sagan