George Farquhar Quotations

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

Those who know the least obey the best.

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.

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

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.

I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.

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

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

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Spare all I have, and take my life.

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

Says little, thinks less, and does - nothing at all, faith.

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.

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

'Twas for the good of my country that I should be abroad. Anything for the good of one's country-I'm a Roman for that.

Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.

I hate all that don't love me, and slight all that do.

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

False love is only blinder.

Do you think a woman's silence can be natural?

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

Our sex still strikes an awe upon the brave, And only cowards dare affront a woman.

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

The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.

A good husband makes a good wife at any time.

'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays.

No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.

Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.

Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.

How a little love and good company improves a woman.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

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

Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.

One may like the love and despise the lover.