All William Congreve Quotes
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve in
Music
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Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
William Congreve in
Love
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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.
William Congreve
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They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
William Congreve
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I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where.
William Congreve
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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.
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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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve
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Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve in
Anger
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If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
William Congreve
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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.
William Congreve
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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.
William Congreve
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There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
William Congreve
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Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.
William Congreve
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