Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.”

“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.”

“Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.”

“To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.”