George Colman the Younger

English dramatist and writer (1762-1836)

George Colman (October 21, 1762October 17, 1836), known as "the Younger," was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer, and son of George Colman "the Elder".

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  • My father was an eminent button maker — but I had a soul above buttons — I panted for a liberal profession.
    • Sylvester Daggerwood (1795), act I, sc. x
  • Praise the bridge that carried you over.
  • Lord help you! Tell ’em Queen Anne's dead.
    • The Heir at Law (1797), act I, sc. i
  • Oh, London is a fine town,
      A very famous city,
    Where all the streets are paved with gold,
      And all the maidens pretty.
    • The Heir at Law (1797), act I, sc. ii
  • Not to be sneezed at.
    • The Heir at Law (1797), act II, sc. i
  • On their own merits modest men are dumb.
    • The Heir at Law (1797), Epilogue
  • Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.
    • "Lodgings for Single Gentlemen", in My Night-gown and Slippers (1797)
  • But when ill indeed,
    E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
    • "Lodgings for Single Gentlemen"
  • 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.
    • "The Newcastle Apothecary", in My Night-gown and Slippers (1797)
  • 'Tis a very fine thing to be father-in-law
    To a very magnificent three-tailed Bashaw!
    • Blue Beard (1798), act II, sc. v
  • Thank you, good sir, I owe you one.
    • The Poor Gentleman (1801), act I, sc. 2
  • Oh, Miss Bailey! Unfortunate Miss Bailey!
    • Love Laughs at Locksmiths (1803), act II, Song
  • Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver.'
    • Love Laughs at Locksmiths (1803), act II, Song
  • His heart runs away with his head.
    • Who Wants a Guinea? (1805), act I, sc. i
  • 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.
    • "The Maid of the Moor"
  • As the lone Angler, patient man,
    At Mewry-Water, or the Banne,
    Leaves off, against his placid wish,
    Impaling worms to torture fish
    • The Lady of the Wreck (1813), canto II, st. xviii
  • Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk,
    Sipped brandy and water gayly.
    • "Mynheer Vandunck", in The Minerva, vol. 1, no. 14 (13 July 1822), p. 109, col. 3: old spelling "gaily"
  • 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.
    • Random Records (1830), vol. 1, p. 122
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