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Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes


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

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

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

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.

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

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

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.

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