You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading

Quote by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Topics: Writing Quotes

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky,...

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky,...

Our memories are independent of our wills.

Our memories are independent of our wills.

Be just before you are generous

Be just before you are generous

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good...

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good...

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good...

There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature; the malice of a good...

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

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

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature.

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed

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

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

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be...

It is easy for a somebody to be modest, but it is difficult to be...

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.

So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you...

So great is the modesty of your mind and face, Sophronius that I wonder you...

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great...

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great...

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue