William Wycherley Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.”
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“Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.”
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“Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.”
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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.”
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“He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.”
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“Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.”
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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”
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“A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.”
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“Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.”
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“A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.”
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“Wit has as few true judges as painting.”
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“Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.”
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“Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.”
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“As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.”
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“Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.”
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“I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.”
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“Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.”
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“Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.”
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“Women serve but to keep a man from better company.”
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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.”
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“Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.”
-- William Wycherley
