George Farquhar

Life dates: 1678 AD — 1707 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1692 AD

Cos. Pray now, what may be that same bed of honour? Kite. Oh, a mighty large bed! bigger by half than the great bed at Ware: ten thousand people may lie in it together, and never feel one another.

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02c. 1692 AD

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

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03c. 1692 AD

'T was for the good of my country that I should be abroad.

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04c. 1692 AD

Necessity, the mother of invention.

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05c. 1692 AD

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, Though we're in Lent. I doubt you're still for flesh. Satire's the sauce, high-season'd, sharp and rough. Kind masks and beaux, I hope you're pepper-proof? Wit is the wine; but 'tis so scarce the true Poets, like vintners, balderdash and brew. Your surly scenes, where rant and bloodshed join. Are butcher's meat, a battle's sirloin: Your scenes of love, so flowing, soft and chaste, Are water-gruel without salt or taste.

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06c. 1692 AD

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

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07c. 1692 AD

Those who know the least obey the best.

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