Wycherley Quotes
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I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
— William Wycherley
As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.
— William Wycherley
Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.
— William Wycherley
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
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
— William Wycherley
Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
— William Wycherley
Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.
— William Wycherley
Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
— William Wycherley
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
— William Wycherley
Necessity, mother of invention.
— William Wycherley
With faint praises one another damn.
— William Wycherley
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
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
— William Wycherley
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
— William Wycherley
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
— William Wycherley
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
— William Wycherley
Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.
— William Wycherley
Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.
— William Wycherley
Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
— William Wycherley
I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
— William Wycherley
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
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
Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off.
— Ralph Wycherley
A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
— William Wycherley
Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
— William Wycherley
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
Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.
— William Wycherley
Temperance is the nurse of chastity.
— William Wycherley
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
— William Wycherley
A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.
— William Wycherley
Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
— William Wycherley
Wit has as few true judges as painting.
— William Wycherley
Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
— William Wycherley
Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.
— William Wycherley
