A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away.
William Wycherley
2
Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
William Wycherley
3
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
William Wycherley
4
He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?
William Wycherley
5
Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.
William Wycherley
6
I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
William Wycherley
7
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
William Wycherley
8
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 em.
William Wycherley
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Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
William Wycherley
10
Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
William Wycherley
Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
William Wycherley
13
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
William Wycherley
14
Women of quality are so civil, you can hardly distinguish love from good breeding.
William Wycherley
15
Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.
William Wycherley
