Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and This scandal that they would avoid, not men.- William Wycherley
Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.
Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
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.
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
He's a fool that marries, but he is a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
