David Garrick Quotes

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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.

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

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

David Garrick
Prologues precede the piece—in mournful verse;
As undertakers—walk before the hearse.

David Garrick
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.

David Garrick
Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll,
Who wrote like an angel, but talked like poor Poll.

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

David Garrick
Heart of oak are our ships,
Heart of oak are our men:
We always are ready;
Steady, boys, steady;
We'll fight and we'll conquer again and again.

David Garrick
Kitty, a fair, but frozen maid,
Kindled a flame I still deplore.

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

David Garrick
Any fool can play tragedy, but comedy, sir, is a damned serious business.

David Garrick