George Farquhar Quotes

The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

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.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.

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.

It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.

'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.

How a little love and good company improves a woman.

False love is only blinder.

A good husband makes a good wife at any time.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

One may like the love and despise the lover.

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.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Do you think a woman's silence can be natural?

Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.

Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays.

Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.

Those who know the least obey the best.

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.