George Farquhar Quotes

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

A good husband makes a good wife at any time.

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.

Those who know the least obey the best.

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.

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

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

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

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.

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

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

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

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

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

'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.

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

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

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

No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.

Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.

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

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

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

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

Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.

One may like the love and despise the lover.

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.

How a little love and good company improves a woman.

False love is only blinder.

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

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.

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