William Congreve Quotes

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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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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Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.

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

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Loves but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.

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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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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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Where modesty's ill manners, 'tis but fitThat impudence and malice pass for wit.

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O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.

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

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Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.

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I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.

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

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Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them.

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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.

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Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

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Alack, he's gone the way of all flesh.

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O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.

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Rise to meet him in a pretty disorder - yes- O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.

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

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Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

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Wife, spouse, my dear, joy, jewel, love, sweet-heart and the rest of that nauseous cant, in which men and their wives are so fulsomely familiar.

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I came upstairs into the world for I was born in a cellar.

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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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