William Wycherley Quotes

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• Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
• I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
• Necessity, mother of invention.
• Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
• Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
• Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
• Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not…
• A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
• Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
• A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.
• But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it
• Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
• He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.
• Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you…
• Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
• Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
• Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
• I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
• Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
• With faint praises one another damn.

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