1.
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
William Wycherley
2.
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
William Wycherley
3.
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
4.
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
5.
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
William Wycherley
6.
Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.
William Wycherley
7.
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
William Wycherley
8.
But methings 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
9.
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
William Wycherley
10.
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.
William Wycherley
11.
Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
William Wycherley
12.
Temperance is the nurse of chastity.
William Wycherley
13.
I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
William Wycherley
14.
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
15.
A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.
William Wycherley
16.
As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.
William Wycherley
17.
Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
William Wycherley
18.
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
19.
With faint praises one another damn.
William Wycherley
20.
Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
William Wycherley
21.
Wit has as few true judges as painting.
William Wycherley
22.
Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
William Wycherley
23.
Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.
William Wycherley
24.
Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.
William Wycherley
25.
Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
William Wycherley
26.
I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
William Wycherley
27.
Your women of honor, as you call 'em , are only chary of their reputations, not their persons, and 'tis scandal they would avoid, not men.
William Wycherley
28.
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
29.
A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
William Wycherley
30.
Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.
William Wycherley
31.
Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.
William Wycherley
32.
Necessity, mother of invention.
William Wycherley
33.
Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
William Wycherley
34.
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
William Wycherley
35.
Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.
William Wycherley