George Farquhar quotes:

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Those who know the least obey the best.

  • Necessity, the mother of invention.

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

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

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

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

  • We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

  • Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

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

  • A good husband makes a good wife at any time.

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

  • Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave, And only cowards dare affront a woman.

  • How a little love and good company improves a woman.

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

  • False love is only blinder.

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

  • Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.

  • 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.

  • I hate all that don't love me, and slight all that do.

  • No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.

  • One may like the love and despise the lover.

  • Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.

  • Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.

  • The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.

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

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

  • '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.

  • Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.

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

  • 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.

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

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