Top 15 Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

Never say more than is necessary.

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

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

"When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.

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

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.

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.

To pity, without the power to relieve, is still more painful than to ask and be denied.

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.

My hair has been in training some time.

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

Had I a thousand daughters, by Heaven! I'd as soon have them taught the black art as their alphabet!

If to raise malicious smiles at the infirmities or misfortunes of those who have never injured us be the province of wit or humour, Heaven grant me a double portion of dullness.

-'tis an old observation, and a very true one; but what's to be done, as I said before? how will you prevent people from talking?...