Richard Sheridan Quotes on Woman (1 Quote)

I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning I don't think so much learning becomes a young woman for instance, I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning nor will it be necessary for her to handle any of your mathematical, astronomical, diabolical instruments but... I would send her, at nine years old, to a boarding-school, in order to learn a little ingenuity and artifice then, sir, she would have a supercilious knowledge in accounts, and, as she grew up, I would have her instructed in geometry, that she might know something of the contagious countries this is what I would have a woman know and I don't think there is a superstitious article in it.