Quotes By George Farquhar

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.

Charming women can true converts make, 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.

Spare all I have, and take my life.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Necessity... the mother of invention.