William Congreve quotes

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. (William Congreve)
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable. View quote
William Congreve
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. View quote
William Congreve
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. View quote
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I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where. View quote
William Congreve
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. View quote
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In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me. View quote
William Congreve
I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. View quote
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They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom. View quote
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They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week. View quote
William Congreve
Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise. (William Congreve)
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. View quote
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Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure, Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. View quote
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If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me. View quote
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Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. View quote
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I came upstairs into the world for I was born in a cellar. View quote
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Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves em still two fools. View quote
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O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell. View quote
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O, she is the antidote to desire. View quote
William Congreve
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind. View quote
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I nauseate walking tis a country diversion, I loathe the country. (William Congreve)
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though late, a sure reward succeeds. View quote
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Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand. View quote
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Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; And as well-bred as if we were not married at all. View quote
William Congreve
Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined. View quote
William Congreve