Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
William Wycherley
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
William Wycherley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1640
Born: January 1
Died: 1715
Died: December 31
Dramatist
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Clive
Shropshire
Friendship
Pleasure
Good
Manly
Fellowship
Pleasures
Lasting
Rational
More quotes by William Wycherley
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
William Wycherley
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 are the fitter for conversation by em.
William Wycherley
I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
William Wycherley
Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.
William Wycherley
As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.
William Wycherley
Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.
William Wycherley
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
William Wycherley
I weigh the man, not his title 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
William Wycherley
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
William Wycherley
Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
William Wycherley
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
William Wycherley
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
William Wycherley
He's a fool that marries but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.
William Wycherley
A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.
William Wycherley
A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
William Wycherley
Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.
William Wycherley
Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.
William Wycherley
Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
William Wycherley
Wit has as few true judges as painting.
William Wycherley
Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.
William Wycherley
