William Wycherley quotes
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“Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.”
-- William WycherleySource : William Wycherley (1751). “The Country Wife: A Comedy, as it is Acted at the Theatre-Royal. Written by Mr. Wycherley”, p.10
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“Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.”
-- William WycherleySource : William Wycherley, Peter Dixon (1998). “Country Wife and Other Plays”, p.39, Oxford University Press, USA
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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.”
-- William WycherleySource : 1675 The Country Wife, act 1, sc.1.
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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”
-- William WycherleySource : 1675 The Country Wife, act 1, sc.1.
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“A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.”
-- William WycherleySource : William Wycherley, Marvin T. Herrick (1970). “The Country Wife”, p.32, Barron's Educational Series
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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.”
-- William WycherleySource : 1675 The Country Wife, act 1, sc.1.
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“Wit has as few true judges as painting.”
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“Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.”
-- William WycherleySource : 1675 The Country Wife, act 1, sc.1.
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“Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.”
-- William WycherleySource : 1675 The Country Wife, act 3, sc.2.
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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.”
-- William WycherleySource : William Wycherley (2014). “The Country Wife”, p.62, A&C Black
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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.”
-- William WycherleySource : William Wycherley (2012). “Four Great Restoration Comedies”, p.25, Courier Corporation
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“Temperance is the nurse of chastity.”
-- William WycherleySource : William Wycherley, William Congreve, Sir John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar (1871). “The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar :”, p.20
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“With faint praises one another damn.”
-- William WycherleySource : The Plain Dealer prologue (1677) See Pope 32
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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.”
-- William WycherleySource : Mr. William Wycherley, Mr. John Crown, Colley Cibber “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. IX.”
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“Necessity, mother of invention.”
-- William WycherleySource : William Wycherley (1731). “Plays Written by Mr. William Wycherley: Containing The Plain Dealer, The Country Wife, Gentleman Dancing Master, Love in a Wood...”, p.403
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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.”
-- William WycherleySource : William Wycherley, Marvin T. Herrick (1970). “The Country Wife”, p.47, Barron's Educational Series
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“Women serve but to keep a man from better company.”
-- William WycherleySource : William Wycherley (2012). “Four Great Restoration Comedies”, p.8, Courier Corporation
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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 WycherleySource : "The Country Wife".
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“Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.”
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“Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.”
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“Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.”
-- William WycherleySource : "The Country Wife".
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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 WycherleySource : William Wycherley (2014). “The Country Wife”, p.136, A&C Black
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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 WycherleySource : 'The Country Wife' (1672-3) act 1, sc. 1
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