There is no trusting appearances. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

"If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!"

"The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts."

"The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it."

"I neer could any luster see In eyes that would not look on me."

"Through all the drama — whether damned or not — Love gilds the scene, and women guide the plot."

"I will not say that there have been no instances of sedition; but I will affirm even that the evidence of these appears in so questionable a shape as ought to excite your suspicion. It is supported by a system of spies and informers, a system which has been carried to a greater extent under the present administration, than in any former period of the history of the country. ... [T]he government which avails itself of such support does not exist for the happiness of the people. It is a system which is calculated to engender suspicion, and to beget hostility; it not only destroys all confidence between man and man, but between the governors and the governed; where it does not find sedition, it creates it."