George Colman the Younger Quotes

Oh, Miss Bailey! Unfortunate Miss Bailey!

And what's impossible can't be,
And never, never comes to pass.

Thank you, good sir, I owe you one.

As the lone Angler, patient man,
At Mewry-Water, or the Banne,
Leaves off, against his placid wish,
Impaling worms to torture fish

But when ill indeed,
E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver.'

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.

Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.

Praise the bridge that carried you over.

'Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law
To a very magnificent three-tailed Bashaw!

On their own merits modest men are dumb.

Not to be sneezed at.

Three stories high, long, dull, and old,
As great lords' stories often are.

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.

Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk,
Sipped brandy and water gayly.