Best 29 quotes of William Wycherley on MyQuotes

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

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

As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.

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

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Necessity, mother of invention.

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

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

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

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

Temperance is the nurse of chastity.

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

Wit has as few true judges as painting.

With faint praises one another damn.

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

Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

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.