William Wycherley Quotes
Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.William Wycherley
Quotes to Explore
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
Isaac Asimov -
There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
Ovid -
Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
Dan O'Brien -
I have the Pleasure to assure you Congress pay particular Attention to the Defence of New Jersey, and hitherto have denied us nothing which we have Asked for that Purpose.
Abraham Clark -
He who eats with most pleasure is he who least requires sauce.
Xenophon
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
Kate Chopin -
Work is both my living and my pleasure.
Harlan Howard -
I once literally had a casting director ask my agent, 'Can she play anything other than a drunk?'
Carla Gallo -
The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
Vernon Lee -
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
Manuel Puig -
I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.
Gary Hume
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I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
Zac Efron -
Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
Abraham Clark -
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Dale Carnegie -
This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
Maggie Stiefvater -
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
Vin Scully -
Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.
G. Willow Wilson
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The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer.
William Carey -
on becoming an artist It is my profession, yes to be an artist but a calling.. that a little bit pathetic, a little bit bombastic. I think it was much more natural.. .I Thought – when I was a child – the only method to be not in the world but outside of the world is to be an artist. I feel me outside, yes..
Anselm Kiefer -
Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
William Osler -
Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.
William Wycherley