Quotes by William Wycherley - Page 1

Necessity, mother of invention.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Invention
Mother
Motherhood
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Temperance is the nurse of chastity.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Chastity
Nurse
Temperance
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With faint praises one another damn.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Damn
Praise
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Wit has as few true judges as painting.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Judging
Painting
Wit
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Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Giving
Liberty
Wine
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A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Giving
Names
Oneself
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Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Hated
Poet
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Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Women
Men
Company
Serve
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Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Men
Money
Want
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Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Avoided
Love Is
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Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Debt
Hate
Poet
Poets
Whom
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Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Drinking
Ems
Scolding
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Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Business
Pleasure
Whilst
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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Friendship
Fellowship
Lasting
Manly
Pleasure
Rational
Pleasures
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Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Companion
Good Nature
Goodness
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He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Marriage
Doe
Fool
Greater
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As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Action
Council
Wit
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Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Finding The One
Mistress
Next
Pleasure
Finding
Old One
Rid
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Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Love
Quality
Breeding
Good Breeding
Love Good Women
Civil
Distinguish
Hardly
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Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Death
Jealousy
Jealous
Eye
Hunger
Petty
Revenge
Sleep
Close
Eyes
Foes
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I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Kings
Men
He Man
Titles
Metal
Stamp
Tis
Weigh
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Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Ceremony
Doe
Sincerity
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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Friends
Men
Book
Reading
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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Judgment
Thy
Wherein
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A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Eclipse
Sun
Together
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I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Men
Meat
People
Heartily
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Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Court
Intricate
Confound
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Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Drunk
Glorious
Manly
Pleasure
Slovenly
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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Love
Marriage
Alas
Gambling
Gaming
Increase
Littles
Love Is
Marrying
Rich
Lose
Stock
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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 / Dramatist
Dull
Eating Alone
Wife
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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 / Dramatist
Handsome
Ugly
Wit
Agreeable
Necessary
Young Woman
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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 / Dramatist
Country
House
Mistress
Night
Retreat
Constantly
Near
Town
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Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Charity
Giving
Pride
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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 / Dramatist
Grief
Loss
Way
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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 / Dramatist
Fool
Greater
Wife
Wit
Good Man Wife
Marry
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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 / Dramatist
Beauty
Handsome
Thinking
Ugly
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Your women of honor, as you call 'em , are only chary of their reputations, not their persons, and 'tis scandal they would avoid, not men.
William Wycherley / Dramatist
Women
Ems
Honor
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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 / Dramatist
Honor
Persons
Scandal
Men Women Your
Avoid
Women Men Your
Women Men Honor
Reputations
Tis
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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 / Dramatist
Book
Conversation
Insomnia
Mistress
Too Much
Discreetly
Fitter
Mistresses
Unfit
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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 / Dramatist
Sympathy
Grief
Pain
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