Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.

Never say more than is necessary.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.