William Congreve Quotes

• I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

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• If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.

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• If there’s delight in love, ‘Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.

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• I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered every where.

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• No, I’m no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

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• Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

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• She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.

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• They come together like the Coroner’s Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.

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• They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

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• There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

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• ‘Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

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• To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.

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• Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

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• Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

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• Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

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• You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

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• Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

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• Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

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• Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

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William Congreve (79)

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

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