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
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.
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.
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.
confound english-dramatist intricate sure
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
english-dramatist thy
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
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?