Richard Brinsley Sheridan Art Quotations

Satires and lampoons on particular people circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the friends of the parties, than by printing them.

In all cases of slander currency, whenever the forger of the lie is not to be found, the injured parties should have a right to come on any of the indorsers.

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

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

It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.

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

Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you.

Sheer necessity,-the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me

Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind rises; where the heart expands; where the countenance is ever placid and benign; where her favorite attitude is to stoop to the unfortunate; to hear their cry and to help them; to rescue and relieve; to succor and save; majestic, from its mercy; venerable, from its Lutility; uplifted, without pride; firm without obduracy; beneficent in each preference; lovely, though in her frown!

Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.