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John Wolcot
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“What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.”
John Wolcot (1738–1819) said by 1819 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To the Royal Academicians; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“No, let the monarch’s bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.”
John Wolcot (1738–1819) said by 1819 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Kien Long; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Ode iv. Compare: "Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, And almost every vice,—almighty gold", Ben Jonson, Epistle to Elizabeth, Countes…
“Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out.”
John Wolcot (1738–1819) said by 1819 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Expostulatory Odes, Ode xv; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“A fellow in a market town, Most musical, cried razors up and down.”
John Wolcot (1738–1819) said by 1819 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Farewell Odes, Ode iii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“People may have too much of a good thing: Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.”
John Wolcot (1738–1819) said by 1819 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Subjects for Painters, The Gentleman and his Wife; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 617.