Samuel Foote Quotes
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So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.
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He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
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Death and the dice level all distinctions.
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
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'Foote,' (said lord Sandwich) 'I have often wondered what catastrophe would bring you to your end; but I think, that you must either die of the p-x, or the halter.' 'My lord,' (replied Foote instantaneously) 'that will depend upon one of two contingencies; - whether I embrace your lordship's mistress, or your lordship's principles.'
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He made him a hut, wherein he did putThe carcass of Robinson Crusoe.O poor Robinson Crusoe!
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Play me no plays.