"Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much……" — William Wycherley
"Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion."
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William Wycherley
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27 Quotes by William Wycherley
William Wycherley has 27 quotes on this site.
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Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
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I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
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Necessity, mother of invention.
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Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
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Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
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Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal…
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A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
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A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.
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But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no…
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Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
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Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that…
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In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As…
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I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won…
— Amy Chua
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To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.)…
— Carl Sagan
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
— Lord Chesterfield
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The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us…
— Robert D. Hales
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Most cats do not approach humans recklessly. The possibility of concealed weapons, clods or sticks, tend to make them reserved.…
— Lloyd Alexander
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After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension…
— Henry David Thoreau
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but…
— Florence Nightingale
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