Richard Brinsley Sheridan: Doing

Richard Brinsley Sheridan was Irish-British politician, playwright and writer. Explore interesting quotes on doing.

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“Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,—disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic

Act I, sc. i.
The Critic (1779)

Children

“Believe not each accusing tongue,
As most weak persons do;
But still believe that story wrong,
Which ought not to be true!”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Reported in Nicholas Harris Nicolas, The Carcanet: a Literary Album, Containing Select Passages from the Most Distinguished English Writers (1828), p. 132.

Personality

“Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic

Act II, sc. ii.
The Critic (1779)

“Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.”

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Act II, sc. iv.
The Duenna (1775)