The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed!
Quotes from The Critic — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
1751–1816 Ireland
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Sheer necessity,—the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
The Critic (1779)
Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
The Critic (1779)
Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
The Critic (1779)
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
The Critic (1779)
The Critic (1779)
If it is abuse,—why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
The Critic (1779)
A practitioner in panegyric, or, to speak more plainly, a professor of the art of puffing.
The Critic (1779)
The Spanish fleet thou canst not see, because—it is not yet in sight!
The Critic (1779)
Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.
The Critic (1779)
The Critic (1779)
No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?
The Critic (1779)
I wish, sir, you would practice this without me. I can't stay dying here all night.
The Critic (1779)
Inconsolable to the minuet in Ariadne.
The Critic (1779)
The Critic (1779)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.