William Wycherley Quotes
Top 34 wise famous quotes and sayings by William Wycherley
William Wycherley Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
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.
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
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.
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.