“By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.”
The Maide of the Mill (1765), Act i, scene 2.
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Love in a Village (1762), Act i, scene 2.
“Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king.”
Reported in Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary of Thoughts (1908), p. 221.
“Ay, do despise me! I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.”
The Hypocrite (1768), Act v, scene 1.
“Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But - why did you kick me downstairs?”
An Expostulation (1789).
Isaac Bickerstaffe Quotes
Love in a Village (1762), Act i, scene 2. Compare: "If naebody care for me, I'll care for naebody", Robert Burns, I hae a Wife o' my Ain; "I envy none, no, no, not I, And no one envies me", Charles Mackay, The King and the Miller.
“Hope! thou nurse of young desire.”
Love in a Village (1762), Act i, scene 1.
“Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it.”
The Maide of the Mill (1765), Act i, scene 1.
