Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
About William Wycherley
William Wycherleywas an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer.
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A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
English dramatist of the Restoration period
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
English dramatist of the Restoration period
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
English dramatist of the Restoration period
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
English dramatist of the Restoration period
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
English dramatist of the Restoration period
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
English dramatist of the Restoration period
I weigh the man, not his title; ’tis not the king’s stamp can make the metal better.
English dramatist of the Restoration period
Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and ‘Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.
English dramatist of the Restoration period
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.
English dramatist of the Restoration period
Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
English dramatist of the Restoration period
Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
English dramatist of the Restoration period
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
English dramatist of the Restoration period
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
English dramatist of the Restoration period
I have heard people eat most heartily of another man’s meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
English dramatist of the Restoration period
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?
English dramatist of the Restoration period
Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
English dramatist of the Restoration period
Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
English dramatist of the Restoration period
Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.
English dramatist of the Restoration period
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
English dramatist of the Restoration period