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…

— 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,…

— 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

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

— George Farquhar

Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.

— George Farquhar

False love is only blinder.

— 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

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

— George Farquhar

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

— 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

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

— George Farquhar

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

— 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 love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

— George Farquhar

A good husband makes a good wife at any time.

— George Farquhar

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

— George Farquhar