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13 Quotes for 'George Colman ("The Younger")' in the Database.
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George Colman ("The Younger") Quotes
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Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk,
Sipped brandy and water gayly.
Topic: Drinking
Source: Mynheer Vandunck
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I marched the lobby, twirled my stick,
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The girls all cried, "He's quite the kick."
Topic: Foppery
Source: Broad Grins--Song (st. 1)
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Praise the bridge that carried you over.
Topic: Gratitude
Source: Heir-at-Law (act I, sc. 1)
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When taken
To be well shaken.
Topic: Medicine
Source: Broad Grins--The Newcastle Apothecary (st. 12)
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On their own merits modest men are dumb.
Topic: Merit
Source: Epilogue to The Heir-at-Law
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When the hollow drum has beat to bed
And the little fifer hangs his head,
When all is mute the Moorish flute,
And nodding guards watch wearily,
On, then let me,
From prison free,
March out by moonlight cheerily.
Topic: Moon
Source: Mountaineers (act I, sc. 2)
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All argument will vanish before one touch of nature.
Topic: Nature
Source: Poor Gentleman (act V, 1)
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I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig:
"What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great wig."
"And what is the second?" Then, dancing a jig
And bowing profoundly, he said, "A great wig."
"And what is the third?" Then he snored like a pig,
And puffing his cheeks out, he replied, "A great wig."
Topic: Oratory
Source: Orator Prig
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Praise the bridge that carried you over.
Topic: Praise
Source: Heir-at-Law (act I, sc. 1)
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'Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law
To a very magnificent three-tailed bashaw.
Topic: Royalty
Source: Blue Beard (act III, sc. 4)
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But when ill indeed,
E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
- George Colman ("The Younger"),
Topic: Sickness
Source: Broad Grins--Lodgings for Single Gentlemen (st. 7)
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My father was an eminent button-maker at Birmingham, . . . but I
had a soul above buttons.
Topic: Soul
Source: Sylvester Daggerwood (act I)
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Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.
- George Colman ("The Younger"),
Topic: Unity
Source: Broad Grins--Lodgings for Single Gentlemen
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