Richard Brinsley Sheridan Biography

Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
Born asRichard Brinsley Butler Sheridan
Occup.Playwright
FromIreland
BornOctober 30, 1751
Dublin, Ireland
DiedJuly 7, 1816
London, England
CauseComplications from a surgical procedure
Aged64 years
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) was an Irish playwright and politician, whose work left an enduring mark on the literary and also social landscape of the 18th century. Born in Dublin, Ireland, on October 30, 1751, Sheridan was the third youngster and also oldest kid of Thomas Sheridan, an actor, as well as educator of elocution, as well as Frances Chamberlaine Sheridan, an author.

Sheridan got his education at Harrow School in England, where he mastered both academics and also sports. After leaving Harrow, he briefly went to Oxford University but left without a degree, picking rather to seek a job in acting as well as theater production.

In 1775, Sheridan married Elizabeth Ann Linley, a gifted vocalist and musician, whose household owned a music shop and had links to the cinema globe. With his partner's aid, Sheridan started creating plays, and in 1777, his initial play, The Rivals, was produced at Covent Garden cinema in London. The play was a huge success and established Sheridan as a significant number in English cinema.

Over the next couple of years, Sheridan wrote a number of a lot more successful plays, including The School for Scandal (1777) as well as The Critic (1779), which cemented his track record as a master of comedy as well as witticism. Via his plays, Sheridan subjected the weakness and follies of the English aristocracy as well as buffooned the allegations of the nouveau riche.

Despite his success in the movie theater, Sheridan was likewise drawn to politics, and in 1780 he was elected to the British Parliament as a member of the Whig Party. In Parliament, he showed to be a significant audio speaker as well as a strong doubter of the federal government's policies, especially when it come to the American nests.

Throughout the 1780s and also 1790s, Sheridan continued to be energetic in both politics and the theater, writing numerous more effective plays, consisting of The Duenna (1785) and also A Trip to Scarborough (1789). Nonetheless, his political job was marred by scandals as well as economic problems, and also he was forced to sell his share in the Drury Lane theater in 1802.

Despite these setbacks, Sheridan continued to be a precious number in English literary and social circles, and his plays remain to be performed and also studied to this day. He died on July 7, 1816, at the age of 64, as well as was hidden in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, where his tomb can still be checked out today.

Our collection contains 31 quotes who is written / told by Richard, under the main topic Success.
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31 Famous quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Small: Wont you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you
"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you"
Small: The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed
"The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed"
Small: There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy
"There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy"
Small: Theres no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature
"There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature"
Small: Its safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion
"Its safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion"
Small: I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, whi
"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"
Small: The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, b
"The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency"
Small: I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and o
"I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it"
Small: My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my ha
"My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!"
Small: Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked
"Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked"
Small: Be just before you are generous
"Be just before you are generous"
Small: Im called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me
"I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me"
Small: The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed
"The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed"
Small: He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts
"He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts"
Small: Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day
"Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day"
Small: You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest
"You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest"
Small: Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over
"Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over"
Small: Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible
"Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible"
Small: Those that vow the most are the least sincere
"Those that vow the most are the least sincere"
Small: There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. Im sure I have as
"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"
Small: Pity those who nature abuses never those who abuse nature
"Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature"
Small: Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and Ill take kingdoms back from thine
"Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine"
Small: Deaths a debt his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer
"Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer"
Small: Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics
"Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics"
Small: That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who
"That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously"
Small: For if there is anything to ones praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse
"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!"
Small: A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother dont like her daughter to resemble her in
"A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in"
Small: A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar
"A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar"
Small: To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in anothers breast is to become a principal in the mischief
"To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief"
Small: The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed
"The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed"
Small: Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your cour
"Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword"