John Wolcot
British satirist and physician; his pseudonym was Peter Pindar
John Wolcot (May 9, 1738 – January 14, 1819) was an English satirist who wrote under the nom-de-plume of "Peter Pindar".
Quotes
edit- What rage for fame attends both great and small!
Better be damned than mentioned not at all.- To the Royal Academicians; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- No, let the monarch’s bags and others hold
The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.- To Kien Long; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Ode iv. Compare: "Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold,
And almost every vice,—almighty gold", Ben Jonson, Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland.
- To Kien Long; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Ode iv. Compare: "Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold,
- Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And every grin so merry draws one out.- Expostulatory Odes, Ode xv; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- A fellow in a market town,
Most musical, cried razors up and down.- Farewell Odes, Ode iii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
- People may have too much of a good thing:
Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.- Subjects for Painters, The Gentleman and his Wife; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 617.
