Isaac Bickerstaffe Quotes

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

Isaac Bickerstaffe

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

Isaac Bickerstaffe

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

Isaac Bickerstaffe

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

Isaac Bickerstaffe

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

Isaac Bickerstaffe

There was a jolly miller once,
Lived on the river Dee;
He worked and sang from morn till night;
No lark more blithe than he.

Isaac Bickerstaffe

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

Isaac Bickerstaffe

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

Isaac Bickerstaffe

The greatness that would make us grave,
Is but an empty thing.
What more than mirth would mortals have?
The cheerful man's a king.

Isaac Bickerstaffe

But if I'm content with a little, Enough is as good as a feast.

Isaac Bickerstaffe