Quote #32
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.
More from Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
- Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
- A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
- Be just before you're generous.
- The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.
- An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.
- Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
- Here's to the maiden of bashful fifteen; Here's to the widow of fifty; Here's to the flaunting, extravegant quean, And here's to the housew…