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
kings men titles
I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
book men may
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
women men company
Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
men people meat
I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
money men want
Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.
piece prettiest
I have been toiling and moiling for the prettiest piece of china, my dear.
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?
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.
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.