George Colman the Younger

"My father was an eminent button maker — but I had a soul above buttons — I panted for a liberal profession."

"Praise the bridge that carried you over."

"Lord help you! Tell ’em Queen Anne's dead."

"Oh, London is a fine town, A very famous city, Where all the streets are paved with gold, And all the maidens pretty."

"Not to be sneezed at."

"On their own merits modest men are dumb."

"Like two single gentlemen rolled into one."

"But when ill indeed, E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed."

"And, on the label of the stuff, He wrote this verse; Which one would think was clear enough, And terse:— When taken, To be well shaken."

"'Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law To a very magnificent three-tailed Bashaw!"

"Thank you, good sir, I owe you one."

"Oh, Miss Bailey! Unfortunate Miss Bailey!"

"Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver.'"

"His heart runs away with his head."

"And what's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass."

"Three stories high, long, dull, and old, As great lords' stories often are."

"As the lone Angler, patient man, At Mewry-Water, or the Banne, Leaves off, against his placid wish, Impaling worms to torture fish"

"Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk, Sipped brandy and water gayly."

"Johnson's style was grand and Gibbon’s elegant; the stateliness of the former was sometimes pedantic, and the polish of the latter was occasionally finical. Johnson marched to kettle-drums and trumpets. Gibbon moved to flutes and hautboys. Johnson hewed passages through the Alps, while Gibbon levelled walks through parks and gardens."