Famous quotes containing the word toby:
“What these perplexities of my uncle Toby were,—’tis impossible for you to guess;Mif you could,—I should blush ... as an author; inasmuch as I set no small store by myself upon this very account, that my reader has never yet been able to guess at any thing. And ... if I thought you was able to form the least ... conjecture to yourself, of what was to come in the next page,—I would tear it out of my book.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“Sir Andrew Aguecheek. Before me, she’s a good wench.
Sir Toby Belch. She’s a beagle true bred, and one that adores me. What o’ that?
Sir Andrew Aguecheek. I was adored once, too.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Maria. He’s drunk nightly in your company.
Sir Toby Belch. With drinking healths to my niece. I’ll drink to her as long as there is a passage in my throat, and drink in Illyria.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)