William Congreve Quotes

• 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.
  

  William Congreve

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

  William Congreve

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Madness

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

  William Congreve

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Heart

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

  William Congreve

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

  William Congreve

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  Tags in Find, Danger, Serious

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

  William Congreve

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

  William Congreve

  Topics in Confidence, Uncategorized

  Tags in Integrity

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

  William Congreve

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  Tags in Grief, Pleasure

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

  William Congreve

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  Tags in Uncertainty

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

  William Congreve

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  Tags in Marriage, Courtship

• 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.

  William Congreve

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Come

• Beauty is the lover’s gift.

  William Congreve

  Topics in Beauty

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

  William Congreve

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

  William Congreve

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

  William Congreve

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

  William Congreve

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  Tags in Music

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

  William Congreve

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Loved

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

  William Congreve

  Topics in Anger

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

  William Congreve

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  Tags in Heaven, Like

William Congreve (79)

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

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