A bumper of good liquor Will end a contest quicker Than justice, judge or vicar. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing’s vile hard reading. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don’t like her daughter to resemble her in. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A readiness to resent injuries is a virtue only in those who are slow to injure. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling “Peregrine Pickle” — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous – licentious -abominable – — Richard Brinsley Sheridan