Skip to content

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

— Isaac Bickerstaffe The Maide of the Mill (1765)

Another quote →

Source and credibility

Wikiquote does not flag this quote as disputed or misattributed.

Source: The Maide of the Mill (1765), Act i, scene 2.
Work: The Maide of the Mill, 1765
Source quality: Precise citation Points to a specific work with a page, chapter, date or similar locator, so you can look it up.

More by Isaac Bickerstaffe

Ay, do despise me! I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

The Hypocrite (1768)

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

Love in a Village (1762)

And this the burden of his song
Forever used to be,—
I care for nobody, no, not I,
If no one cares for me.

Love in a Village (1762)

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.

Love in a Village (1762)

All Isaac Bickerstaffe quotes →

Topics

Age

More quotes by Isaac Bickerstaffe

Young fellows will be young fellows.

Love in a Village (1762)

Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king.

'Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it.

The Maide of the Mill (1765)

Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.

The Padlock (1768)

Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But - why did you kick me downstairs?

An Expostulation (1789)

All Isaac Bickerstaffe quotes →

You may also like

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts.

William Shakespeare As You Like It (1599)

From now on, everything in life will appear blurry to me. What’s the point of wiping my glasses when my vision has already left me?"

Sanu Sharma

The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.

Núria Añó

Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Isaac Bickerstaffe (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.