Seymour Hicks

thumb| Sir Edward Seymour Hicks (30 January 1871 – 6 April 1949), better known as Seymour Hicks, was a British actor, music hall performer, playwright, actor-manager and producer. Quotes You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look. Quoted in C. R. D. Pulling They Were Singing (1952) ch. 7. Cited in J. M. and M. J. Cohen (eds.) The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations (1971) p. 97 and in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 3rd ed. (1980 [1979]) p. 250 No man knows more about women than I do, and I know nothing! Quoted in C. Kent Wright (ed.) Men, Women and Marriage (Allen & Unwin, 1939) Preface, p. 9 A man does not buy his wife a fur coat to keep her warm, but to keep her pleasant. Quoted in Kenneth Williams, Acid Drops (Coronet Books, 1981 [1980]) "Jibing", p. 78 External links Category:Actors from the United Kingdom Category:Playwrights from the United Kingdom Category:1871 births Category:1949 deaths