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George Farquhar
11 quotes
“Poetry’s a mere drug, Sir.”
George Farquhar (1677–1707) first seen 1698 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Love and a Bottle (1698), Act iii, Sc. 2.
“I hate all that don’t love me, and slight all that do.”
George Farquhar (1677–1707) first seen 1699 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Constant Couple (1699), Lure, Act i, Sc. 2.
“Crimes, like Virtues, are their own Rewards.”
George Farquhar (1677–1707) first seen 1702 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Inconstant (1702), Ori, Act iv, Sc. 2.
“Cos. Pray now, what may be that same bed of honour? Kite. Oh, a mighty large bed! bigger by half than the great bed at Ware: ten thousand people may lie in it together, and never feel one another.”
George Farquhar (1677–1707) first seen 1706 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Recruiting Officer (1706), Act i. Sc. 1.
“Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.”
George Farquhar (1677–1707) first seen 1706 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Recruiting Officer (1706), Braz, Act iii, Sc. 2.
“[T]hose who know the least, obey the best.”
George Farquhar (1677–1707) first seen 1706 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Recruiting Officer (1706), Act iv. Sc. 1.
“Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.”
George Farquhar (1677–1707) first seen 1707 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Beaux’ Stratagem (1707), Bon, Act i, Sc. 1.
“There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.”
George Farquhar (1677–1707) first seen 1707 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Beaux’ Stratagem (1707), Arch, Act i, Sc. 1.
“I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.”
George Farquhar (1677–1707) first seen 1707 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Beaux’ Stratagem (1707), Act iii. Sc. 1.
“’T was for the good of my country that I should be abroad.”
George Farquhar (1677–1707) first seen 1596 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Beaux’ Stratagem (1707), Act iii. Sc. 2. Compare: "Leaving his country for his country’s sake", Fitz-Geffrey, The Life and Death of Sir Francis Drake (1596), stanza 213.; "True patriots all; for, be it understood, /…
“Necessity, the mother of invention.”
George Farquhar (1677–1707) first seen 1658 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Twin Rivals (1702), Act i. Compare: "Necessity is the mother of invention", Wycherly, Love in a Wood (1672), act iii. sc. 3.; "Art imitates Nature, and necessity is the mother of invention", Richard Franck, Northern…
Also quoted by: William Wycherley