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Top 30 William Wycherley Quotes (2025 Update)

William Wycherley Quote: “Necessity, mother of invention.”

1. “Necessity, mother of invention.”

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “Temperance is the nurse of chastity.”

2. “Temperance is the nurse of chastity.”

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.”

3. “Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.”

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.”

4. “Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.”

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.”

5. “A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.”

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.”

6. “A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.”

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.”

7. “A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.”

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.”

8. “Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.”

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.”

9. “I love to be envied, and would not marry a wife that I alone could love; loving alone is as dull as eating alone.”

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “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.”

10. “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.”

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “I weigh the man, not his title; ’tis not the king’s stamp can make the metal better.”

11. “I weigh the man, not his title; ’tis not the king’s stamp can make the metal better.”

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “He’s a fool that marries; but he’s a greater fool that does not marry a fool.”

12. “He’s a fool that marries; but he’s a greater fool that does not marry a fool.”

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.”

13. “Wine gives you liberty, love takes it away.”

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William Wycherley Quote: “Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.”

14. “Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.”

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.”

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

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.”

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

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “Women serve but to keep a man from better company.”

17. “Women serve but to keep a man from better company.”

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “I have heard people eat most heartily of another man’s meat, that is, what they do not pay for.”

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

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.”

20. “Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.”

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.”

21. “Poetry in love is no more to be avoided than jealousy.”

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.”

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

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.”

23. “Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.”

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.”

24. “Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.”

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.”

25. “But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.”

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.”

26. “Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.”

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “With faint praises one another damn.”

27. “With faint praises one another damn.”

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “Have as much good nature as good sense since they generally are companions.”

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

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.”

29. “Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.”

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.”

30. “Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.”

— William Wycherley

William Wycherley Quote: “Wit has as few true judges as painting.”

31. “Wit has as few true judges as painting.”

— William Wycherley

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