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.
marriage doe fool
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.
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.
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.
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.