George Colman the Elder quotes

“And what 's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass.”
-- George Colman the Elder

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“I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret.”
-- George Colman the Elder

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

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“Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.”
-- George Colman the Elder

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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

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“Love and a cottage! Eh, Fanny! Ah, give me indifference and a coach and six!”
-- George Colman the Elder

Source : The Clandestine Marriage act 1 (1766).

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“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.”

“Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.”

“Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.”

“I believe that when people say something is impossible, it's only impossible because a strategy has not been found yet.”

“The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.”

“It's hard to have that debate around secret programs authorized by secret legal opinions issued by a secret court. Actually, it's impossible to have that debate.”

“...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.”

“I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.”

“The condition for a miracle is difficulty, however the condition for a great miracle is not difficulty, but impossibility.”

Source : "Fictional character: Angus Buchan". Faith Like Potatoes, www.imdb.com. 2006.

“We have a God who delights in impossibilities.”