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The Critic QUOTES

The Critic QUOTES

1 " Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two! "

― Richard Brinsley Sheridan , The Critic

2 " 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

3 " Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible. "

― Richard Brinsley Sheridan , The Critic

4 " There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy. "

― Richard Brinsley Sheridan , The Critic

5 " 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

6 " The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. "

― Richard Brinsley Sheridan , The Critic