George Farquhar Quotations

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

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.

Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.

Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.

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.

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

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.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

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

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.