Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

Samuel Foote

Read through the most famous quotes from Samuel Foote




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


— Samuel Foote


#insult

Death and the dice level all distinctions.


— Samuel Foote


#dice #distinctions #level

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


— Samuel Foote


#cellar #living

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


— Samuel Foote


#dull #dullness #himself #only #others

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


— Samuel Foote


#gone #house #land #learning #most






About Samuel Foote

Samuel Foote Quotes




Did you know about Samuel Foote?

Of mimicry and Methodists

Late in 1757 Foote faced himself in the guise of young actor and mimic Tate Wilkinson. Having turned his satire on Englishmen abroad and actresses at home Foote pointed his daggered pen towards himself other writers and the condition of the "starving writer" in his play The Author which premiered at Drury Lane on 5 February 1757. The Archbishop agreed on the condition that it should be publiSamuel Footed "Revised and Corrected by the Archbishop of Canterbury.

back to top