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
piece prettiest
I have been toiling and moiling for the prettiest piece of china, my dear.
fellowship pleasure rational
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
revenge sleep eye
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
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
marriage doe fool
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.
doe sincerity ceremony
Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
drinking ems scolding
Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.
together sun eclipse
A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.
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.
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.
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.
money men want
Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.