Quotes from workThe Recruiting Officer
The Recruiting Officer is a 1706 play by the Irish writer George Farquhar, which follows the social and sexual exploits of two officers, the womanising Plume and the cowardly Brazen, in the town of Shrewsbury to recruit soldiers. The characters of the play are generally stock, in keeping with the genre of Restoration comedy.
“Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.”
George Farquhar The Recruiting Officer
The Recruiting Officer (1706), Braz, Act iii, Sc. 2.
“[T]hose who know the least, obey the best.”
George Farquhar The Recruiting Officer
The Recruiting Officer (1706), Act iv. Sc. 1.
