Famous quotes
Quotes by famous people, credited to who said them. Your own quotes must not match any of these. More are added all the time. 1,158,808 quotes Who coined it · How we decide
EnglishItalianoPolskiעבריתFrançaisPortuguêsفارسیEspañol中文РусскийDeutschالعربيةहिन्दी日本語ΕλληνικάLatina
Isaac Bickerstaffe
10 quotes
“Hope! thou nurse of young desire.”
Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733–1812) first seen 1762 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Love in a Village (1762), Act i, scene 1.
Also quoted by: Isaac Bickerstaff
“There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the river Dee; He worked and sung from morn till night: No lark more blithe than he.”
Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733–1812) first seen 1762 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Love in a Village (1762), Act i, scene 2.
Also quoted by: Isaac Bickerstaff
“And this the burden of his song Forever used to be,— I care for nobody, no, not I, If no one cares for me.”
Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733–1812) first seen 1762 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Love in a Village (1762), Act i, scene 2. Compare: "If naebody care for me, I'll care for naebody", Robert Burns, I hae a Wife o' my Ain; "I envy none, no, no, not I, And no one envies me", Charles Mackay, The King and …
Also quoted by: Isaac Bickerstaff
“Young fellows will be young fellows.”
Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733–1812) first seen 1762 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Love in a Village (1762), Act ii, scene 2.
Also quoted by: Isaac Bickerstaff
“'Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it.”
Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733–1812) first seen 1765 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Maide of the Mill (1765), Act i, scene 1.
“By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.”
Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733–1812) first seen 1765 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Maide of the Mill (1765), Act i, scene 2.
“Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.”
Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733–1812) first seen 1768 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Padlock (1768).
“Ay, do despise me! I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.”
Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733–1812) first seen 1768 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Hypocrite (1768), Act v, scene 1.
Also quoted by: Isaac Bickerstaff
“Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But - why did you kick me downstairs?”
Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733–1812) first seen 1789 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Expostulation (1789).
“Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king.”
Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733–1812) said by 1812 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908), p. 221.