George Farquhar
Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.Collection: Poetry
Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.Collection: Teacher
We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.Collection: Teacher
Those who know the least obey the best.Collection: Spirituality
'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.Collection: Country
One may like the love and despise the lover.Collection: May
We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.Collection: Money
Money is the sinews of love, as of war.Collection: Love
False love is only blinder.Collection: Love
Necessity, the mother of invention.Collection: Mother
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.Collection: Justice
Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.Collection: Men
Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.Collection: Player
Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.Collection: Rewards
Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.Collection: Taste
Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.Collection: Women
Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.Collection: Women
It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.Collection: Power
When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.Collection: Marriage
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.Collection: Courage
Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.Collection: Funny
The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.Collection: Pleasure
I hate all that don't love me, and slight all that do.Collection: Hate
A good husband makes a good wife at any time.Collection: Husband
Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.Collection: Poetry
No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.Collection: Fortune
I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.Collection: Food
Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.Collection: Littles
Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.Collection: Play
Aimwell: Then you understand Latin, Mr. Bonniface? Bonniface: Not I, Sir, as the saying is, but he talks it so very fast that I'm sure it must be good.Collection: Latin
I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.Collection: Believe
How a little love and good company improves a woman.Collection: Women
'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays.Collection: Sunday
Women never really command until they have given their promise to obey; and they are never in more danger of being made slaves than when the men are at their feet.Collection: Men
Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.Collection: Destiny
Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.Collection: Journey
Do you think a woman's silence can be natural?Collection: Thinking
Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.Collection: Men
Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.Collection: Adversity