Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.
—William Wycherley
Topics: Money
Your virtue is your greatest affectation.
—William Wycherley
Topics: Affectation
Necessity, the mother of invention.
—William Wycherley
Topics: Necessity, One liners
I have heard people eat most heartily of another man’s meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
—William Wycherley
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
—William Wycherley
Topics: Marriage
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
—William Wycherley
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
—William Wycherley
Topics: Friends and Friendship
Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
—William Wycherley
Topics: Men, Men & Women, Women
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.
—William Wycherley
Topics: Reputation
I weigh the man, not his title; ’tis not the king’s stamp can make the metal better.
—William Wycherley
Topics: Class
Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.
—William Wycherley
Topics: Goodness
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.
—William Wycherley
Topics: Lovers, Love
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
—William Wycherley
Topics: Reading, Books
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
—William Wycherley
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?
—William Wycherley
Topics: Marriage, Wives
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
—William Wycherley
Topics: Women
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