Quotes From "The Critic" By Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two! Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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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.- Now, Madam Confidante! But keep your madness in the background, if you please. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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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. Richard Brinsley Sheridan