Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant. — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
