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

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

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.
George Farquhar

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

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

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

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.
George Farquhar

Necessity, the mother of invention.
George Farquhar

Poetry is a mere drug, Sir.
George Farquhar

Spare all I have, and take my life.
George Farquhar


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

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

Those who know the least obey the best.
George Farquhar

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.
George Farquhar

We love the precepts for the teacher's sake.
George Farquhar

When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
George Farquhar