45 Quotes by William Wycherley

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

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.

I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.

Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.

Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?