Quote #4
You write with ease to show your breeding, But easy writing's curst hard reading.
More from Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years.
- An oyster may be crossed in love.
- Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike-no bail, no demurrer.
- The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
- An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
- 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
- A progeny of learning.
- Never say more than is necessary.