William Congreve Quotes

I hope you do not think me prone to an iteration of nuptials.

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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 once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces sifted her, and separated her failings I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily.

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Beauty is the lover's gift.

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You are all camphire and frankincense, all chastity and odour.

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

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I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.

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Would she could make of me a saint,Or I of her a sinner.

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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

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I nauseate walking 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.

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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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For 'tis some virtue, virtue to commend.

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A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

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These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into a wife.

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Women are like tricks by light of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand.

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

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By magic numbers and persuasive sound.

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A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant one argues a decay of parts, as t'other of beauty.

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Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.

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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

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

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

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He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.

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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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I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.

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