George Farquhar Quotes

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• There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
• Money is the sinews of love, as of war.
• I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.
• How a little love and good company improves a woman.
• Necessity, the mother of invention.
• Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
• Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
• Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.
• I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.
• Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place…
• When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
• Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure…
• It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.
• 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 virtuous;…
• Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the…
• Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.
• Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when…
• Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.
• Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.
• We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions…

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