Samuel Foote

thumb|A portrait of Samuel Foote in 1769 Samuel Foote (January 1720 – October 21, 1777) was an English dramatist, actor and theatre manager from Cornwall. Quotes Play me no plays. The Knights (1748, published 1754), act ii. Born in a cellar, and living in a garret. 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. He made him a hut, wherein he did putThe carcass of Robinson Crusoe.O poor Robinson Crusoe! The Mayor of Garratt (1763, published 1764), Act i, Scene 1. "Foote," (said lord Sandwich) "I have often wondered what catastrophe would bring you to your end; but I think, that you must either die of the p-x, or the halter." "My lord," (replied Foote instantaneously) "that will depend upon one of two contingencies; — whether I embrace your lordship's mistress, or your lordship's principles." 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. External links Foote+Samuel Samuel Foote Category:Playwrights from England Category:1777 deaths Category:People from Cornwall Category:Actors from England Category:1720 births