The Critic Quotes

“The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed.”
― Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic

“There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.”
― Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic

“Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.”
― Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic

“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.”
― Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic

“Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!”
― Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic

“SNEER. But, what the deuce, is the confidante to be mad too?

PUFF. To be sure she is. The confidante is always to do whatever her mistress does- weep when she weeps, smile when she smiles, go mad when she goes mad.-Now, Madam Confidante! But keep your madness in the background, if you please.”
― Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic