Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous — licentious — abominable — infernal — Not that I ever read them — no — I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
SNEER. But, what the deuce, is the confidante to be mad too?PUFF. To be sure she is. The confidante is always to do whatever her mistress does- weep when she weeps, smile when she smiles, go mad when she goes mad.-Now, Madam Confidante! But keep your madness in the background, if you please.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Never say more than is necessary.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Never say more than is necessary.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan