William Wycherley famous quotes

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
-- William Wycherley

#Fellowship #Pleasure #Rational

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
-- William Wycherley

#Revenge #Sleep #Eye

Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.
-- William Wycherley

#Goodness #Companion #Good Nature

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

#Book #Mistress #Ems

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.
-- William Wycherley

#Marriage #Fool #Doe

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
-- William Wycherley

#Hate #Debt #Poet

But methings 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

#Beauty #Thinking #Handsome

A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.
-- William Wycherley

#Together #Sun #Eclipse

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
-- William Wycherley

#Book #Men #May

A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
-- William Wycherley

#Names #Giving #Oneself

Wit has as few true judges as painting.
-- William Wycherley

#Judging #Painting #Wit

Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.
-- William Wycherley

#Wine #Giving #Liberty

Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.
-- William Wycherley

#Love Is

I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.
-- William Wycherley

#Wife #Dull #Eating Alone

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.
-- William Wycherley

#Grief #Loss #Way

Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.
-- William Wycherley

#Poet #Hated

As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.
-- William Wycherley

#Action #Wit #Council

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
-- William Wycherley

#Pride #Giving #Charity

Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.
-- William Wycherley

#Sympathy #Pain #Grief

Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.
-- William Wycherley

#Money #Men #Want

Temperance is the nurse of chastity.
-- William Wycherley

#Nurse #Temperance #Chastity

With faint praises one another damn.
-- William Wycherley

#Praise

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
-- William Wycherley

#Drunk #Pleasure #Glorious

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
-- William Wycherley

#Kings #Men #Titles

Necessity, mother of invention.
-- William Wycherley

#Mother #Motherhood #Invention

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
-- William Wycherley

#Love #Quality #Breeding

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
-- William Wycherley

#Love #Littles #Rich

Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
-- William Wycherley

#Women #Men #Company

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

#Women #Honor #Scandal

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
-- William Wycherley

#Doe #Sincerity #Ceremony

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
-- William Wycherley

#Finding The One #Mistress #Next

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
-- William Wycherley

#Business #Pleasure

I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
-- William Wycherley

#Men #People #Pay

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

#Country #Night #House