William Wycherley, (1640-1716), British Dramatist Quotes

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 them.

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

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.

With faint praises one another damn.

Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Money makes up in a measure all other wants in men.

I weigh the man, not his title: 'tis not the king's inscription can make the metal better or heavier.

Necessity, mother of invention.

Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater; but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.