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.
marriage doe fool
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.
together sun eclipse
A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.
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.
poet hated
Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.
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.
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.