Round-The-World Barstool Blues: Bon mot for the week

Monday, May 17, 2010

Bon mot for the week

"For my part, I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly."

William Wycherley (1640-1715)

4 comments:

gary said...: It's good to know that the "manly pleasures" haven't changed in 300 years!; 5:43 AM, May 17, 2010
Froog said...: There is something oddly reassuring about that, isn't there?

I can't believe I'd missed this gem all these years.

No idea where it comes from. One of the plays, I assume, but I haven't been able to track down which one.; 4:36 PM, May 17, 2010
JES said...: Don't know if you can access Google Books over there, but it appears to come from Wycherly's play The Country Wife. [source]; 5:07 PM, May 22, 2010
Froog said...: Oh, thanks, JES. What would I do without you? (My own searching, possibly...)

That's his best known play, and I think I read it, yonks ago in high school. I thought the quote would probably have been from there somewhere, but couldn't remember it, couldn't find it.; 2:17 AM, May 23, 2010

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