George Farquhar

"Necessity, the mother of invention."

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

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

"Poetry’s a mere drug, Sir."

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

"Crimes, like Virtues, are their own Rewards."

"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."

"Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny."

"[T]hose who know the least, obey the best."

"Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini."

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

"Strike while the iron is hot. or Make hay while the sun shines."

"Strike while the iron is hot."