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George Colman the Younger
19 quotes
“My father was an eminent button maker — but I had a soul above buttons — I panted for a liberal profession.”
George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) first seen 1795 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sylvester Daggerwood (1795), act I, sc. x
“Praise the bridge that carried you over.”
George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) first seen 1797 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (1797), act I, sc. i
“Lord help you! Tell ’em Queen Anne's dead.”
George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) first seen 1797 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Heir at Law (1797), act I, sc. i
“Oh, London is a fine town, A very famous city, Where all the streets are paved with gold, And all the maidens pretty.”
George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) first seen 1797 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Heir at Law (1797), act I, sc. ii
“Not to be sneezed at.”
George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) first seen 1797 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Heir at Law (1797), act II, sc. i
“On their own merits modest men are dumb.”
George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) first seen 1797 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Heir at Law (1797), Epilogue
Also quoted by: George Colman, The Younger
“Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.”
George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) first seen 1797 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lodgings for Single Gentlemen", in My Night-gown and Slippers (1797)
Also quoted by: George Colman, The Younger
“But when ill indeed, E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.”
George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) said by 1836 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: George Colman, The Younger
“And, on the label of the stuff, He wrote this verse; Which one would think was clear enough, And terse:— When taken, To be well shaken.”
George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) first seen 1797 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Newcastle Apothecary", in My Night-gown and Slippers (1797)
“'Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law To a very magnificent three-tailed Bashaw!”
George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) first seen 1798 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Blue Beard (1798), act II, sc. v
“Thank you, good sir, I owe you one.”
George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) first seen 1801 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Poor Gentleman (1801), act I, sc. 2
Also quoted by: George Colman, The Younger
“Oh, Miss Bailey! Unfortunate Miss Bailey!”
George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) first seen 1803 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Love Laughs at Locksmiths (1803), act II, Song
“Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver.'”
George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) first seen 1803 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Love Laughs at Locksmiths (1803), act II, Song
“His heart runs away with his head.”
George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) first seen 1805 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Who Wants a Guinea? (1805), act I, sc. i
“And what's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass.”
George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) first seen 1811 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Maid of the Moor", in The Belfast Monthly Magazine, vol. 6, no. 35 (1811), p. 481, col. 2
Also quoted by: George Colman, The Younger
“Three stories high, long, dull, and old, As great lords' stories often are.”
George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) said by 1836 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: George Colman, The Younger
“As the lone Angler, patient man, At Mewry-Water, or the Banne, Leaves off, against his placid wish, Impaling worms to torture fish”
George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) first seen 1813 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Lady of the Wreck (1813), canto II, st. xviii
“Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk, Sipped brandy and water gayly.”
George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) first seen 1822 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mynheer Vandunck", in The Minerva, vol. 1, no. 14 (13 July 1822), p. 109, col. 3: old spelling "gaily
Also quoted by: George Colman, The Younger
“Johnson's style was grand and Gibbon’s elegant; the stateliness of the former was sometimes pedantic, and the polish of the latter was occasionally finical. Johnson marched to kettle-drums and trumpets. Gibbon moved to flutes and hautboys. Johnson hewed passages through the Alps, while Gibbon levelled walks through parks and gardens.”
George Colman the Younger (1762–1836) first seen 1830 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Random Records (1830), vol. 1, p. 122