Thank you, good sir, I owe you one

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Poor Gentleman (1801), act I, sc. 2.

English (original)

Thank you, good sir, I owe you one.

— George Colman the Younger

Lord help you! Tell ’em Queen Anne's dead.

Not to be sneezed at.

My father was an eminent button maker — but I had a soul above buttons — I panted for a liberal profession.

Praise the bridge that carried you over.

Oh, London is a fine town, A very famous city, Where all the streets are paved with gold, And all the maidens pretty.

On their own merits modest men are dumb.