52 Quotes by George Farquhar

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

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.

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

'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.

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

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

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

False love is only blinder.

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