William Congreve Quotes

• I could find it in my heart to marry thee, purely to be rid of thee.

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• Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.

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• Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure: Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

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• Now am I slap-dash down in the mouth.

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• Eternity was in that moment.

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• Bilbo’s the word, and slaughter will ensue.

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• Man was by Nature Woman’s cully made: We never are, but by ourselves, betrayed.

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• I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.

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  A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

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• He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

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• A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.

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• Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

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• A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.

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• A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.

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• Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of ’em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

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• Beauty is the lover’s gift.

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• Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

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• Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

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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.
  

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• I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

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William Congreve (79)

Birth:	24th January, 1670
Death:	19th January, 1729
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Poet, Playwriter

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