Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes About Reputation

Quotes about: Reputation

• A tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prudent lady as a fever is generally to those of the strongest constitutions. But there is a sort of puny, sickly reputation, that is always ailing, yet will wither the robuster characters of a hundred prudes.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Character, Prudes, Credit

• There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Degrees, Needs, Addresses

  1777 Joseph Surface. The School for Scandal, act 5, sc.1.

• Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Rumor, Done, Scandal

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, J. W. Lake (1838). “The school for scandal: a comedy in five acts”, p.54

• If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame as well as game, there are many who would thank them for the bill.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Games, Bills, Reputation

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