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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Succeed, Way, Fail

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

falsehood, gossip, libel, reputation, rumor, slander

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

quips, comments

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

morality, natural, perversion

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

SNEER. But, what the deuce, is the confidante to be mad too?PUFF. To be sure she is. The confidante is always to do whatever her mistress does- weep when she weeps, smile when she smiles, go mad when she goes mad.-Now, Madam Confidante! But keep your madness in the background, if you please.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

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.

journalism, newspapers, reviews

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

facts, imagination, jests, jokes, memory

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Never say more than is necessary.