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Isaac Bickerstaffe Quotes

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

Hope! thou nurse of young desire.

Isaac Bickerstaffe
Hope, Nurse, Desire
Isaac Bickerstaffe (1791). “Love in a village: a comic opera”, p.1

But if I'm content with a little, Enough is as good as a feast.

Isaac Bickerstaffe
Littles, Enough, Ifs
Nicholas Rowe, David Garrick, Charles Dibdin, Isaac Bickerstaffe, Charles Macklin (1818). “Lady Jane Grey. A Tragedy: 7”

Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.

Isaac Bickerstaffe
Bird, Fine, Fine Feathers
Isaac BICKERSTAFFE (1825). “The Padlock, etc”, p.10

Young fellows will be young fellows.

Isaac Bickerstaffe
Young, Fellows, Be Young
Isaac Bickerstaffe (1818). “Love in a village, a comic opera. Oxberry's ed”, p.32

There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the River Dee; He worked and sang, from morn to night; No lark so blithe as he. And this the burden of his song, Forever used to be, "I care for nobody, not I, If no one cares for me.

Isaac Bickerstaffe
Song, Night, Rivers
Love in aVillage act 1, sc. 2 (1762)

How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home.

Isaac Bickerstaffe
Home, Land, Wife

Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it.

Isaac Bickerstaffe
Goes On, Folks
Isaac Bickerstaffe, Newbery (1767). “The Maid of the Mill. A Comic Opera. As it is Performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden. By the Author of Love in a Village. A New Edition”, p.7

The greatness that would make us grave, Is but an empty thing. What more than mirth would mortals have? The cheerful man's a king.

Isaac Bickerstaffe
Kings, Greatness, Men
Isaac BICKERSTAFFE (1814). “Love in a Village ... As performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Printed ... from the prompt book. With remarks by Mrs. Inchbald”, p.14

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