Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

You cannot know wine by the barrell.

People are at their best when they can be natural. And that's the hardest thing as a photographer.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

What 'Survivor' is really about is the inescapability of your being yourself, even when you have told yourself you can be someone different for 30 days.

If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.

Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.

We cannot see but a small depth into the heart of man, and can only discover the work of his tongue.

Wine is wont to show the mind of man.

The way we like to think of ourselves is not the way we look. We like to think of ourselves as more evolved than we frequently are.

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

The name 'The Tig' comes from a wine called tignanello, and the first time I had a sip of this wine, it was such an 'aha' moment. I finally understood what people were talking about when they spoke about the body, the legs or structure of wine.

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it does. But the danger is, that while a man grows better pleased with himself, he may be growing less pleasing to others. Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a dread of the company has presented.

(Clothes) cannot change a man's nature. He's either kind or he isn't, with or without clothes.

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

If I give you a good wine, you will see how it tastes and after you ask where it comes from.

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before.

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.

Money doesn't change men, it merely unmasks them. If a man is naturally selfish or arrogant or greedy, the money brings that out, that's all.

If any man gives you a wine you can't bear, don't say it is beastly... But don't say you like it. You are endangering your soul and the use of wine as well... Seek out some other wine good to your taste.

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. —SUZANNE NECKER, WIFE OF JACQUES NECKER, MINISTER OF FINANCE

When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don't respect talking about an austere, unforgiving wine, I turn a bit austere and unforgiving myself. When I come across stuff like that and remember about the figs and bananas, I want to snigger uneasily. You can call a wine red, and dry, and strong, and pleasant. After that, watch out.

People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.