Quote#Kindness
Rowley: I believe there is no sentiment he has more faith in as that…
Quote byRichard Brinsley Sheridan · 1751–1816
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, ‘The School for Scandal’ (1777) act 5, sc. 1.
English (original)
Rowley: I believe there is no sentiment he has more faith in as that ‘Charity begins at home’.Sir Oliver Surface: And his I presume is of that domestic sort which never stirs abroad at all.
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
More from Richard Brinsley Sheridan
While his off-heel, insidiously aside, Provokes the caper which he seems to chide.
He was of opinion that the Press should be unfettered; that its freedom should be, as indeed it was, commensurate with the freedom of the People, and the well-being of a virtuous State: on that account, he thought that even one hundred …
A progeny of learning.
An apothecary should never be out of spirits.
Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike — no bail, no demurrer.
Such protection as vultures give to lambs.