Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

It may be said, let him take Money at Interest, and not buy at Time. But then Men must be found, that will lend; the Legislative must provide a Fund to borrow upon.

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

In precisely the same way money is often hired, and the hire paid for the use of it is called Interest.

What is a permanent loan but a mortgage upon the wealth and industry of the country? It is the only form of indebtedness, as experience has shown, by which heavy and durable encumbrance can be laid upon the community.

I would borrow money all day long, if the cost of borrowing is less than the expected return.

I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, 'What for?' I said, 'I'm going to buy some sugar.'

People paid their 3 percent a month interest without considering it excessive.

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions.

In this business, if you don't pay your debts you're finished.

If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.

If you lend money to any of my people that is poor by you, you shall not be a usurer to him, nor shall you lay upon him usury.

With the right kind of financing, I think we can grow by 100 percent per year.

If you are a borrower, the more you borrow, the more it costs.

A lower interest rate doesn't make a debt go away.

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

There is no class of people in the world, who have such good memories as creditors.

The borrower runs in his own debt.

Ever since going up to university, I have accumulated new debt, and new means of becoming indebted.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.

The creditor hath a better memory than the debtor.

Wherefore when a man giveth out his money upon condition that be may not demand it back until a certain time to come, he certainly may take a compensation for this inconvenience which he admits against himself.

It's not long-term debt if the money is immediately paid back.

Capital is kind of a banking concept.

Borrowed money, even when owing to a nation by another nation, should be repaid. They hired the money, didn't they? Let them pay it.