Quotes from George Farquhar

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

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

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.

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.

Those who know the least obey the best.

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

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

Spare all I have, and take my life.

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.

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.

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

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

Those who know the least obey the best.

No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.