Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

Quote by William Wycherley

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Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what...

Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what...

Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

Women serve but to keep a man from better company.

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the...

I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the...

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and...

Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and...

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool;...

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool;...

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not...

Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not...

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very...

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very...

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy...

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy...

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they...

I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they...

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

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

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.

Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the...

Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the...

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell...

A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell...

Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other

Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other

To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what...

To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what...

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the...

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the...

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms,...

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms,...