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Famous William Wycherley Quotes
“Temperance is the nurse of chastity.”
“Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.”
“Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.”
“As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.”
“Wit has as few true judges as painting.”
“Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.”
“Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.”
“Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.”
“Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.”
“I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.”
“Necessity, mother of invention.”
“Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.”
“Women serve but to keep a man from better company.”
“Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.”
“A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.”
“Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.”
“He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.”
“Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.”
“Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.”
“Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.”
“I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.”