Quotes from David Garrick

Let others hail the rising sun:I bow to that whose course is run.

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll,Who wrote like an angel, but talked like poor Poll.

Heart of oak are our ships,Heart of oak are our men:We always are ready;Steady, boys, steady;We'll fight, and we'll conquer again and again.

Here lies poet Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an Angel, but talked like poor Poll

Their cause I plead - plead it in heart and mind A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.

Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.

Wonders will never cease.

The boughs that bear most hang lowest.

Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks.

Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

Hearts of oak are our ships, Hearts of oak are our men.

Corrupted freemen are the worst slaves.