William Wycherley Quotes

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

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.

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?

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.

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

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.

Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.

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

Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.

A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.

Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

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

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

I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

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

Temperance is the nurse of chastity.

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

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