Samuel Foote Quotes

Samuel Foote delivers a witty, absurd glimpse into destiny and class that will make you chuckle while pondering society.

13 quotes

1. Play me no plays.

2. Born in a cellar, and living in a garret.

3. He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe. O poor Robinson Crusoe!

4. He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.

5. One who preserves all the exterior decencies of ignorance.

6. Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

7. When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.

8. He who is good at excuses is generally good for nothing else.

9. Death and the dice level all distinctions.

10. 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; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top, and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.

11. For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent.

12. 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.

13. “He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.”