George Farquhar Quotes

#1. Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.

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#2. The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.

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#3. False love is only blinder.

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#4. There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

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#5. How a little love and good company improves a woman.

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#6. I hate all that don't love me, and slight all that do.

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#7. It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

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#8. Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.

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#9. Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

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#10. When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

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#11. Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.

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#12. Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.

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#13. 'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

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#14. Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.

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#15. I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

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#16. Do you think a woman's silence can be natural?

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#17. Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

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#18. Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

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#19. No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.

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#20. Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

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#21. Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.

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#22. One may like the love and despise the lover.

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#23. We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

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#24. Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.

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#25. I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

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#26. Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.

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#27. 'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays.

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#28. Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave,
And only cowards dare affront a woman.

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#29. Those who know the least obey the best.

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#30. A good husband makes a good wife at any time.

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#31. Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.

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#32. We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

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#33. Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.

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#34. Necessity, the mother of invention.

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#35. Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

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#36. Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.

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#37. Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.

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#38. Spare all I have, and take my life.

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