Top 41 Quotes & Sayings by George Farquhar

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.

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

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

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

Necessity, the mother of invention.

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

Spare all I have, and take my life.

Those who know the least obey the best.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.

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

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

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.

No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.

A good husband makes a good wife at any time.

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

Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.

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

How a little love and good company improves a woman.

Since a woman must wear chains, I would have the pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

False love is only blinder.

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

Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

'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.

The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.

One may like the love and despise the lover.