William Wycherley
William Wycherley
William Wycherleywas an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionDramatist
together sun eclipse
A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.
beauty thinking ugly
But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it
hate debt poet
Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
drinking ems scolding
Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.
names giving oneself
A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
women honor scandal
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.
women men company
Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
love littles rich
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
love quality breeding
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
mother motherhood invention
Necessity, mother of invention.
marriage doe fool
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.
book mistress ems
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.
wife eating-alone dull
I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.
love-is avoided
Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.