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
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.
love-is avoided
Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.
wine giving liberty
Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.
nurse temperance chastity
Temperance is the nurse of chastity.
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.
kings men titles
I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
business pleasure
Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
drunk pleasure glorious
Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.