George Colman the Younger

George Colman (October 21, 1762 – October 17, 1836), known as "the Younger," was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer, and son of George Colman "the Elder".

Quotes

• Mum's the word.
  • The Battle of Hexham (1789), act II, sc. i

• My father was an eminent button maker — but I had a soul above buttons — I panted for a liberal profession.
  • Sylvester Daggerwood (1795), act I, sc. x

• Praise the bridge that carried you over.
  • The Heir at Law (1797), act I, sc. i

• Lord help you! Tell ’em Queen Anne's dead.
  • The Heir at Law (1797), act I, sc. i

• Oh, London is a fine town,
    A very famous city,
  Where all the streets are paved with gold,
    And all the maidens pretty.
  • The Heir at Law (1797), act I, sc. ii

• Not to be sneezed at.
  • The Heir at Law (1797), act II, sc. i

• On their own merits modest men are dumb.
  • The Heir at Law (1797), Epilogue

• Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.
  • "Lodgings for Single Gentlemen", in My Night-gown and Slippers (1797)

• But when ill indeed,
  E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
  • "Lodgings for Single Gentlemen"

• 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.
  • "The Newcastle Apothecary", in My Night-gown and Slippers (1797)

• 'Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law
  To a very magnificent three-tailed Bashaw!
  • Blue Beard (1798), act II, sc. v

• Thank you, good sir, I owe you one.
  • The Poor Gentleman (1801), act I, sc. 2

• Oh, Miss Bailey! Unfortunate Miss Bailey!
  • Love Laughs at Locksmiths (1803), act II, Song

• Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver.'
  • Love Laughs at Locksmiths (1803), act II, Song

• His heart runs away with his head.
  • Who Wants a Guinea? (1805), act I, sc. i

• And what's impossible can't be,
  And never, never comes to pass.
  • "The Maid of the Moor", in The Belfast Monthly Magazine, vol. 6, no. 35 (1811), p. 481, col. 2

• Three stories high, long, dull, and old,
  As great lords' stories often are.
  • "The Maid of the Moor"

• As the lone Angler, patient man,
  At Mewry-Water, or the Banne,
  Leaves off, against his placid wish,
  Impaling worms to torture fish
  • The Lady of the Wreck (1813), canto II, st. xviii

• Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk,
  Sipped brandy and water gayly.
  • "Mynheer Vandunck", in The Minerva, vol. 1, no. 14 (13 July 1822), p. 109, col. 3: old spelling "gaily"

• 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.
  • Random Records (1830), vol. 1, p. 122

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• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), p. 454