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
english-dramatist fools-and-foolishness good greater man marry wit
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?
piece prettiest
I have been toiling and moiling for the prettiest piece of china, my dear.
english-dramatist thy
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
confound english-dramatist intricate sure
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
agreeable beauty english-dramatist necessary ugly wit
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
kings men titles
I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
grief loss way
Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.
poet hated
Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.
sympathy pain grief
Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.
pride giving charity
Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
action wit council
As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.
judging painting wit
Wit has as few true judges as painting.
goodness companion good-nature
Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.
book men may
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.