WIST

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) Irish dramatist and politician
(Attributed)

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) Irish dramatist and politician
The Critic Act I, sc. i (1779)

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) Irish dramatist and politician
The Critic, Act I, sc. ii (1779)

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) Irish dramatist and politician
The Critic, act II, sc. i (1779)