"He's a fool that marries, but he's a……" — William Wycherley
"He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?"
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27 Quotes by William Wycherley
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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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