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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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More Quotes By Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  1. Never say more than is necessary.

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

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

  4. SNEER. But, what the deuce, is the confidante to be mad too? P U F F. 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.-...

  5. Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

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