Isaac Bickerstaffe quotes

Isaac Bickerstaffe was an Irish playwright and librettist, known for his contributions to 18th-century English comic opera. His collaborations with composer Thomas Arne produced several popular works for the London stage, including "Love in a Village." He later faced personal difficulties and scandal, which led him to spend his final years in exile. Here are 10 of his quotes:

Young fellows will be young fellows.

Isaac Bickerstaffe

Fine feathers, they say, make fine birds.

Isaac Bickerstaffe

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

Isaac Bickerstaffe

There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the river Dee; He worked and sung from morn till night: No lark more blithe than he.

Isaac Bickerstaffe

Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But - why did you kick me downstairs?

Isaac Bickerstaffe

Ay, do despise me! I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

Isaac Bickerstaffe

Health is the greatest of all possessions; a pale cobbler is better than a sick king.

Isaac Bickerstaffe

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

Isaac Bickerstaffe

And this the burden of his song Forever used to be,- I care for nobody, no, not I, If no one cares for me.

Isaac Bickerstaffe