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George Farquhar Biography

George Farquhar (1677 – 29 April 1707) was an Irish dramatist. He is noted for his contributions to late Restoration comedy, particularly for his plays The Recruiting Officer (1706) and The Beaux' Stratagem (1707).

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

Beer, Drank, Eat, Food, Purely, Sleep

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

Justice, Like, Poverty, Rags, Scandal, Shameful

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

Adversity, Poet, Poets, Prosperity, Question

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

Funny, Humorous, Expression, Burst, Expressions, Heavens

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.

Accidents, Adventure, Heart, Men, Money, Spend

Necessity, the mother of invention.

Invention, Mother, Motherhood, Necessity, Philosophical

Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.

Destiny, Hanging, Know, Knows, Marriage

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

Belief, Believe, Laughed, Ridicule, Talked

'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.

Country, Good, Patriotism, Should, Twas

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

Fool, Hands, Men, Pictures, Value

Those who know the least obey the best.

Know, Obedience, Obey, Obeying, Spirituality

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

Confidant, Nature, Want, Woman, Women

No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.

Beauty, Fortune, Woman

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.

Cooks, Grace, Hungry, Play, Scene, Theatre

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

Hearing, Man, Men, Modesty, Spite

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

Natural, Silence, Think, Thinking

The shortest pleasures are the sweetest.

Pleasure, Pleasures, Shortest, Sweetest

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.

Aimwell, Be Good, Bonniface, Good, Latin, Saying

A good husband makes a good wife at any time.

Good Husband, Husband, Time, Wife

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

Hate, I Hate, Love, Slight

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