Sheridan Orders

Famous quotes containing the words sheridan and/or orders:

“My valour is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816)

“There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)