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English playwright and poet (b. 1641), Death: 1-1-1716 William Wycherley Quotes
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

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Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
William Wycherley

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6.
Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.
William Wycherley

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Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
William Wycherley

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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

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9.
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
William Wycherley

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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