William Congreve Quotes

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.

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Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

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For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though late, a sure reward succeeds.

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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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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.

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Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

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Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. By magic numbers and persuasive sound.

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O, she is the antidote to desire.

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Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected.

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

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Music has charms to soothe the savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

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Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.

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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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Believe it, Men have ever been the same,And all the Golden Age is but a Dream.

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Every man plays the fool once in his life, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.

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

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Yes, but tenderness becomes me best - a sort of dyingness - you see that picture has a sort of a - ha, Foible A swimmingness in the eyes.

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It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

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Poetry, the eldest sister of all arts, and parent of most.

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No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.

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

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A little disdain is not amiss A little scorn is alluring.

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See how love and murder will out.

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Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.

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