Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

Never say more than is necessary.

~ 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

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

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks, but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

~ 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

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

~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.

~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.

~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan