Mother Invention Quotes by William Wycherley

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.

— William Wycherley

Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.

— William Wycherley

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

— William Wycherley

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

— William Wycherley

Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our…

— William Wycherley

As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.

— William Wycherley

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

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

— William Wycherley

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

— William Wycherley

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

Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.

— William Wycherley

A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.

— William Wycherley

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

— William Wycherley

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

— William Wycherley

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with…

— William Wycherley