Quotes by Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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

My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out >>

Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diab >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for y >>

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read t >>

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold i >>

Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette --throw Roderick Random into the closet --put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; there --put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley