Quotes by George Farquhar

• Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
• When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
• 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.
• There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
• There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
• Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.
• Necessity, the mother of invention.
• Money is the sinews of love, as of war.
• I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.
• Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.
• Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
• Captain is a good travelling name and so I take it.
• Those who know the least obey the best.
• I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly.
• We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.