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
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With faint praises one another damn.
finding-the-one mistress next
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
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Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
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Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
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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?