Special Dictionary / Quotations / William Wycherley

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12 Quotations of William Wycherley.

1. A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell i ...

2. Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly ple ...

3. He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is ...

4. I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they ...

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

6. Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose wha ...

7. Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose wha ...

8. Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and mak ...

9. Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy ju ...

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

11. Women serve but to keep a man from better com ...

12. Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not th ...