Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"There's nothing like being used to a thing."

"He stated it distinctly...as what he conceived was the unalterable resolution of ministers, that no proposal for peace should be entertained, while a single French soldier had a footing on British gro…"

"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."

"No caparisons, miss, if you please. Caparisons don't become a young woman."

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

"We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,—our retrospection will be all to the future."

"You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin."

"Take our constitution, wanting certainly as it did many reforms, yet, practically, it afforded the best security that human wisdom had ever given to man."