David Garrick quotes

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. (David Garrick)

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

David Garrick

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

David Garrick

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

I am disappointed by that stroke of death that has eclipsed the gaiety of nations, and impoverished the public stock of harmless pleasure.

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, and talk'd like poor Poll.

David Garrick

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

David Garrick

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

David Garrick

Heart of oak are our ships, Heart of oak are our men; We always are ready.

David Garrick

His profession made him rich and he made his profession respectable. (David Garrick)

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

David Garrick

Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks.

David Garrick

The boughs that bear most hang lowest.

David Garrick

Wonders will never cease.

David Garrick