Richard Brinsley Sheridan Heart Quotations

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

Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind rises; where the heart expands; where the countenance is ever placid and benign; where her favorite attitude is to stoop to the unfortunate; to hear their cry and to help them; to rescue and relieve; to succor and save; majestic, from its mercy; venerable, from its Lutility; uplifted, without pride; firm without obduracy; beneficent in each preference; lovely, though in her frown!

Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you.

It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

The heart that is conscious of its own integrity is ever slow to credit another´s treachery.