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

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

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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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• ‘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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• 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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• 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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• 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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William Congreve (79)

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

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