William Wycherley Quotes

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.

Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.

Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.

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

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.

Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.

Necessity, mother of invention.

Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.

I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.

Temperance is the nurse of chastity.

A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.

He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.

Your women of honor, as you call 'em , are only chary of their reputations, not their persons, and 'tis scandal they would avoid, not men.

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.

Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.

A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.

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.

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.