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13 Quotes for 'David Garrick' in the Database.
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David Garrick Quotes
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Prologues precede the piece in mournful verse,
As undertakers walk before the hearse.
Topic: Acting
Source: Apprentice (prologue)
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Prologues like compliments are loss of time;
'Tis penning bows and making legs in rhyme.
Topic: Acting
Source: Prologue to Crisp's Tragedy of Virginia
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Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
Topic: Amusement
Source: None
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Cards were at first for benefits designed,
Sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
Topic: Cards
Source: Epilogue to Ed. Moore's Gamester
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Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends us cooks.
Topic: Cookery
Source: Epigram on Goldsmith's Retaliation
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Caused by a dearth of scandal should the vapors
Distress our fair ones--let them read the prayers.
Topic: Journalism
Source: prologue to Sheridan's "School for Scandal"
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Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind;
A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.
Topic: Kindness
Source: Epilogue on Quitting the Stage
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Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Source: None
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Hearts of oak are are ships,
Hearts of oak are our men.
Topic: Navy
Source: Hearts of Oak, another version
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Hearts of oak are our ships,
Gallant tars are our men.
Topic: Navy
Source: Hearts of Oak
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I've that within for which there are no plasters.
Topic: Sickness
Source: in prologue to Goldsmith's "She Stoops to Conquer"
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Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.
Topic: Slavery
Source: Prologue to Edward Moore's Gamesters
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Let others hail the rising sun:
I bow to that whose course is run.
Topic: Sun
Source: On the Death of Henry Pelham
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