William Wycherley
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.Collection: Jealousy
Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.Collection: Business
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.Collection: Friendship
Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.Collection: Wine
Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.Collection: Poet
Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.Collection: Goodness
But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without itCollection: Beauty
Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.Collection: Money
A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.Collection: Country
Women serve but to keep a man from better company.Collection: Women
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.Collection: Finding The One
Necessity, mother of invention.Collection: Mother
I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.Collection: Men
Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.Collection: Love Is
Temperance is the nurse of chastity.Collection: Nurse
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.Collection: Marriage
A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.Collection: Names
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.Collection: Love
Your women of honor, as you call 'em , are only chary of their reputations, not their persons, and 'tis scandal they would avoid, not men.Collection: Women
Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with 'em.Collection: Drinking
I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.Collection: Kings
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.Collection: Sympathy
Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.Collection: Book
A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.Collection: Together
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.Collection: Love
I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.Collection: Wife
With faint praises one another damn.Collection: Praise
Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.Collection: Pride
Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.Collection: Doe
Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.Collection: Hate
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.Collection: Grief
Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.Collection: Drunk
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.Collection: Friends
As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.Collection: Action
Wit has as few true judges as painting.Collection: Judging