52 Quotes by George Farquhar

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

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

Spare all I have, and take my life.

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

Says little, thinks less, and does - nothing at all, faith.

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.

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

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.

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.