'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.

- George Farquhar

One may like the love and despise the lover.

- George Farquhar

Money is the sinews of love, as of war.

- George Farquhar

Sir, you shall taste my Anno Domini.

- George Farquhar

Poetry's a mere drug, Sir.

- George Farquhar

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

- 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 g…

- George Farquhar

False love is only blinder.

- George Farquhar

Necessity, the mother of invention.

- George Farquhar