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Top 30 George Farquhar Quotes (2025 Update)

George Farquhar Quote: “Those who know the least obey the best.”

1. “Those who know the least obey the best.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “A good husband makes a good wife at any time.”

2. “A good husband makes a good wife at any time.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “How a little love and good company improves a woman.”

3. “How a little love and good company improves a woman.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into – matrimony.”

4. “When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into – matrimony.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.”

5. “Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “False love is only blinder.”

7. “False love is only blinder.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.”

8. “Women are like pictures: of no value in the hands of a fool till he hears men of sense bid high for the purchase.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “It is a maxim that man and wife should never have it in their power to hang one another.”

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

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.”

10. “No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.”

11. “We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “Poetry’s a mere drug, Sir.”

12. “Poetry’s a mere drug, Sir.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.”

13. “I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.”

14. “Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.”

15. “Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.”

16. “Spite of all modesty, a man must own a pleasure in the hearing of his praise.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.”

17. “Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “Vivutur ingenio, that damn’d motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.”

18. “Vivutur ingenio, that damn’d motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher’s sake.”

19. “Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher’s sake.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “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.”

20. “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.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.”

21. “I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “Tis a question whether adversity or prosperity makes the most poets.”

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

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.”

23. “Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.”

24. “The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing ’em rattle a little.”

25. “Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing ’em rattle a little.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “Money is the sinews of love, as of war.”

26. “Money is the sinews of love, as of war.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “Necessity, the mother of invention.”

27. “Necessity, the mother of invention.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “One may like the love and despise the lover.”

28. “One may like the love and despise the lover.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “I hate all that don’t love me, and slight all that do.”

29. “I hate all that don’t love me, and slight all that do.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “Do you think a woman’s silence can be natural?”

30. “Do you think a woman’s silence can be natural?”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.”

31. “Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “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.”

32. “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.”

— George Farquhar

George Farquhar Quote: “There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.”

33. “There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.”

— George Farquhar

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