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

The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

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.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
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

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan