Ifs Quotes by George Farquhar

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

— George Farquhar

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.

— 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

No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.

— George Farquhar

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

— George Farquhar

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

— George Farquhar

Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.

— George Farquhar

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

— George Farquhar

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

— 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, she's still…

— George Farquhar

The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.

— George Farquhar

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

— George Farquhar