Richard Sheridan Quotes (7 Quotes)

Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing The answer was, Swapping lies.

Take care you know I am compliance itself, when I am not thwarted No one more easily led, when I have my own way but don't put me in a frenzy.

I had rather follow you to your grave than see you owe your life to any but a regular - bred physician

If it is abuse, why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or anoth.

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.

Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.