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David Garrick Quotes

1717–1779 England

David Garrick (19 February 1717, in Hereford – 20 January 1779) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century and was a pupil and friend of Samuel Johnson.

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Their cause I plead,—plead it in heart and mind;
A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

Let others hail the rising sun:
I bow to that whose course is run.

Heart of oak are our ships,
Heart of oak are our men;
We always are ready.

This scholar, rake, Christian, dupe, gamester, and poet.

Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks.

Prologues like compliments are loss of time;
’T is penning bows and making legs in rhyme.

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.

You are of the society of the wits and railers;… the surest sign is, you are an enemy to marriage, the common butt of every railer.

Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll,
Who wrote like an angel, and talk’d like poor Poll.

I've that within for which there are no plasters.

Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors
Distress our fair ones—let them read the papers.

Come cheer up, my lads! 'tis to glory we steer,
To add something more to this wonderful year;
To honour we call you, as free men not slaves,
For who are so free as the sons of the waves?

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?

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Garrick (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.