George Colman the Elder Quotes

• I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret.

  George Colman the Elder

  Secret, Pleasure, Vow

  David Garrick, George Colman, the elder (1995). “The Clandestine Marriage”, p.46, Broadview Press

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• And what 's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass.

  George Colman the Elder

  Impossible, Impossibility

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• Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six!

  George Colman the Elder

  Home, Giving, House

  The Clandestine Marriage act 1 (1766).

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• Oh how will crime engender crime! throw guilt
  Upon the soul, and like a stone cast on
  The troubled waters of a lake,
  'Twill form in circles round succeeding round;
  Each wider than the first.

  George Colman the Elder

  Lakes, Circles, Water

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• Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.

  George Colman the Elder

  Men, Mind, Should

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