12 Quotations by William Wycherley
- 1. A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but on ...
- 2. Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
- 3. He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good ...
- 4. I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
- 5. I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
- 6. Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you h ...
- 7. Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you h ...
- 8. Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for comp ...
- 9. Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
- 10. Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
- 11. Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
- 12. Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Ti ...
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