S.A. Bent, comp. Familiar Short Sayings of Great Men. 1887. | | Theodore Edward Hook |
| | [A witty journalist and author; born in London, 1788; appointed by the prince regent secretary of the Mauritius; on his return edited newspapers; died 1841.] |
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You appear to have emptied your wine-cellar into your bookseller.
| To a man who made his publisher drunk at dinner. |
| When some one spoke of a three-hours monologue of Coleridge, occasioned by seeing two soldiers seated by the wayside, Thank Heaven, said Hook, that he did not see a regiment! as in that case he never would have stopped. |
| W. J. Thoms wrote in The Nineteenth Century, December, 1881, that, asking Hook what sort of a looking man the dramatist and author Planché was, Short and bald, he replied: he used to cut his hair, but now his hair has cut him. |
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