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
wine giving liberty
Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.
nurse temperance chastity
Temperance is the nurse of chastity.
praise damn
With faint praises one another damn.
drunk pleasure glorious
Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
men people meat
I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
business pleasure
Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
finding-the-one mistress next
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
doe sincerity ceremony
Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
country night house
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
money men want
Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.
revenge sleep eye
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
fellowship pleasure rational
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.