George Farquhar

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

— George Farquhar

False love is only blinder.

— George Farquhar

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

— George Farquhar

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

— George Farquhar

Spare all I have, and take my life.

— George Farquhar

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

— George Farquhar

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

— George Farquhar

No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.

— George Farquhar

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

— George Farquhar

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

— George Farquhar

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

— George Farquhar

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

— George Farquhar

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

— George Farquhar

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

— George Farquhar

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

— George Farquhar

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

— George Farquhar

Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made…

— George Farquhar

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance,…

— George Farquhar

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

— George Farquhar

Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast…

— George Farquhar

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

— George Farquhar

'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…

— George Farquhar

Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table…

— George Farquhar

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in…

— George Farquhar

“I have told my passion, my eyes have spoke it, my tongue pronounced it, and my pen declared it; I have sighed…

— George Farquhar

Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne,…

— George Farquhar

One may like the love and despise the lover.

— George Farquhar

A good husband makes a good wife at any time.

— George Farquhar

Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.

— George Farquhar

The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.

— George Farquhar

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

— George Farquhar

Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.

— George Farquhar

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.

— George Farquhar

Those who know the least obey the best.

— George Farquhar

How a little love and good company improves a woman.

— George Farquhar

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

— George Farquhar

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

— George Farquhar

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

— George Farquhar

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

— George Farquhar

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

— George Farquhar