„He made him a hut, wherein he did put
The carcass of Robinson Crusoe.
O poor Robinson Crusoe!“
— Samuel Foote
The Mayor of Garratt (1763, published 1764), Act i, Scene 1.
Geburtstag: 27. Januar 1720
Todesdatum: 21. Oktober 1777
Samuel Foote war ein englischer Schauspieler und Dramatiker.
— Samuel Foote
The Mayor of Garratt (1763, published 1764), Act i, Scene 1.
— Samuel Foote
Percival Stockdale, The Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Percival Stockdale (1809), quoted in The Yale Book of Quotations, ed. Fred R. Shapiro, 2006, Yale University Press.
— Samuel Foote
The Author (1757), Act ii. Compare: "Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred", Lord Byron, A Sketch; "I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar" William Congreve, Love for Love, Act ii, Scene 7.
— Samuel Foote
The Knights (1748, published 1754), act ii.