181 Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

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.

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

Never say more than is necessary.

Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

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

The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.

You write with ease, to show your breeding,But easy writing's curst hard reading.