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William Wycherley Quotes
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Type: Dramatist Quotes Category: English Dramatist Quotes Year of Birth: 1640 Date of Death: January 1, 1716 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: William Wycherley Related Authors: William Shakespeare Harold Pinter Tom Stoppard Christopher Marlowe John Ciardi Douglas William Jerrold Alan Bennett |
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
William Wycherley Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court. William Wycherley Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly. William Wycherley Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business. William Wycherley Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. William Wycherley He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold? William Wycherley Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close. William Wycherley I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for. William Wycherley I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better. William Wycherley Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before. William Wycherley Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em. William Wycherley Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one. William Wycherley Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate. William Wycherley Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other. William Wycherley Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see. William Wycherley Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it. William Wycherley Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding. William Wycherley Women serve but to keep a man from better company. William Wycherley Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men. William Wycherley |
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