Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.