Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

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

You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

You 're our enemy; lead the way, and we 'll precede.

You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?

While his off-heel, insidiously aside, Provokes the caper which he seems to chide.

Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.

We will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,-our retrospection will be all to the future.

Too civil by half.

There 's nothing like being used to a thing.