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
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.
poet hated
Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.
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.
kings men titles
I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.