Creative Quotations from . . .
Colley Cibber
(1671-1757) born on Nov 06
English "playwright, poet, actor". "His play "The Fool in Fashion," 1696, is considered the first sentimental, drama form that dominated the English stage for nearly a century."
 
   
F
This business will never hold water.

R
Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.
A
Stolen sweets are best.
N
"Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new before they're ended."
K
As good be out of the world as out of the fashion.


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not," Act iv."
R: "Narcissa, in "Love's Last Shift," act 2, sc. 1."
A: ""The Rival Fools," I."
N: Prologue to the Double Gallant.
K: "In "Shorter Bartlett's Familiar Quotations," by John Bartlett, 1937, 1980, 1992."



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