To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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More quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
- He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
- I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
- Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
- To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.