(20 quotes found)
“Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.”
William Wycherley
“Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.”
“Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other”
“Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.”
“And with faint praises one another damn.”
“A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.”
“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.”
“Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close”
“Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.”
