For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.
Richard Brinsley SheridanThe 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.
Richard Brinsley SheridanMen seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.
Richard Brinsley SheridanA fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan