Best 30 quotes of George Farquhar on MyQuotes

A good husband makes a good wife at any time.

Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Do you think a woman's silence can be natural?

False love is only blinder.

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

How a little love and good company improves a woman.

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

One may like the love and despise the lover.

Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave, And only cowards dare affront a woman.

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.

Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Those who know the least obey the best.

The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.

Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.

'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays.

Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.

We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.