Top 37 Wycherley Quotes
#1. Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
William Wycherley
#3. Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
William Wycherley
#4. Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
William Wycherley
#5. Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
William Wycherley
#6. Children really brighten up a household. They never turn the lights off.
Ralph Wycherley
#7. Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
William Wycherley
#8. Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
William Wycherley
#11. Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
William Wycherley
#12. Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
William Wycherley
#13. 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
#15. 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.
William Wycherley
#18. Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
William Wycherley
#19. 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
#20. I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
William Wycherley
#21. 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
#23. 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 Wycherley
#24. 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.
William Wycherley
#25. 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
#29. As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.
William Wycherley
#30. I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
William Wycherley
#32. Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.
William Wycherley
#33. Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
William Wycherley
#34. Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
William Wycherley
#35. 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
#37. A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.
William Wycherley
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