45 Quotes by William Wycherley

I have been toiling and moiling for the prettiest piece of china, my dear.

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.

Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.

Conversation augments pleasure and diminishes pain by our having shares in either; for silent woes are greatest, as silent satisfaction leas; since sometimes our pleasure would be none but for telling of it, and our grief insupportable but for participation.

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.

Wit has as few true judges as painting.

Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.

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