Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em. — William Wycherley Drinking Copy Share Image
As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action. — William Wycherley Action Copy Share Image
Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion. — William Wycherley Ceremony Copy Share Image
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see. — William Wycherley Books Copy Share Image
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. — William Wycherley Fellowship Copy Share Image
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions. — William Wycherley Companion Copy Share Image
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before. — William Wycherley Become rich Copy Share Image
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court. — William Wycherley Argument Copy Share Image
Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable. — William Wycherley Action Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good… — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman… — William Wycherley Beauty Copy Share Image
Your women of honor, as you call 'em , are only chary of their reputations, not their persons, and 'tis scandal they… — William Wycherley Honor Copy Share Image
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night… — William Wycherley Country Copy Share Image
Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a… — William Wycherley Comparison Copy Share Image
Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if… — William Wycherley Books Copy Share Image
Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since… — William Wycherley Communication Copy Share Image
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as… — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better. — William Wycherley Psychology Copy Share Image
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one. — William Wycherley Mistress Copy Share Image
“Tis my maxim, he's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool.” — William Wycherley Marriage Copy Share Image
A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out. — William Wycherley Beauty Copy Share Image
Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business. — William Wycherley Business Copy Share Image
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without… — William Wycherley Beauty Copy Share Image
I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly. — William Wycherley Drunk Copy Share Image
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close. — William Wycherley Death Copy Share Image
