George Farquhar Quotes

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

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

George Farquhar
I don't think matrimony consistent with the liberty of the subject.

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

George Farquhar
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.

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

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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.

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

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Rise thou prostrate Ingineer, not all thy undermining Skill shall reach my Heart.

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

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

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

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

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The reader may find some faults in this play, which my illness prevented the amending of; but there is great amends made in the representation, which cannot be match'd, no more than the friendly and indefatigable care of Mr. Wilks, to whom I chiefly owe the success of the play.

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

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A lady, if undressed at Church, looks silly,
One cannot be devout in dishabilly.

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How a little love and good company improves a woman!

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There's some diversion in a talking blockhead; and since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.

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Cos. Pray now, what may be that same bed of honour?
Kite. Oh, a mighty large bed! bigger by half than the great bed at Ware: ten thousand people may lie in it together, and never feel one another.

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Reason still keeps its throne, but it nods a little, that's all.

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

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'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.

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Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst—…Words, words or I shall burst.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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