Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

“Never say more than is necessary.”

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

“Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.”

“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 wh...”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“An apothecary should never be out of spirits.”

“Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike — no bail, no demurrer.”

“I will not say that there have been no instances of sedition; but I will affirm even that the evidence of these appears in so questionable a shape as ought to excite your suspicion. It is supported...”