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David Garrick
10 quotes
“Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.”
David Garrick (1717–1779) said by 1779 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Their cause I plead,—plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.”
David Garrick (1717–1779) first seen 1776 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Prologue on Quitting the Stage in 1776. Compare: "I would help others, out of a fellow-feeling", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy. Democritus to the Reader.
“Prologues like compliments are loss of time; ’T is penning bows and making legs in rhyme.”
David Garrick (1717–1779) said by 1779 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.”
David Garrick (1717–1779) said by 1779 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This scholar, rake, Christian, dupe, gamester, and poet.”
David Garrick (1717–1779) said by 1779 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Heart of oak are our ships, Heart of oak are our men; We always are ready.”
David Garrick (1717–1779) said by 1779 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here lies James Quinn. Deign, reader, to be taught, Whate’er thy strength of body, force of thought, In Nature’s happiest mould however cast, To this complexion thou must come at last.”
David Garrick (1717–1779) said by 1779 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Are these the choice dishes the Doctor has sent us? Is this the great poet whose works so content us? This Goldsmith’s fine feast, who has written fine books? Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks?”
David Garrick (1717–1779) first seen 1557 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epigram on Goldsmith’s Retaliation. Vol. ii. p. 157. Compare: "God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat", Thomas Tusser, A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557); "God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks", John…
“Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, and talk’d like poor Poll.”
David Garrick (1717–1779) said by 1779 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hearts of oak are our ships, Hearts of oak are our men.”
David Garrick (1717–1779) said by 1779 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source