Richard Brinsley Sheridan - The Critic (1806)

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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.

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

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Enter Tilburina stark mad in white satin, and her confidante stark mad in white linen.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
O Lord, Sir—when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,—disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I wish, sir, you would practice this without me. I can't stay dying here all night.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Spanish fleet thou canst not see, because—it is not yet in sight!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
If it is abuse,—why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan