Richard Brinsley Sheridan Reading Quotations

Easy writings curse is hard reading.

Easy writing's curst hard reading.

Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette -throw "Roderick Random" into the closet -put "The Innocent Adultery" into "The Whole Duty of Man"; thrust "Lord Aimworth" under the sofa! cram "Ovid" behind the bolster; there -put "The Man of Feeling" into your pocket. Now for them.

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

Good reading makes for damn hard writing.