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Top 30 William Congreve Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 19, 2020

“Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.”

― William Congreve

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

― William Congreve

“A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.”

― William Congreve

“There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.”

― William Congreve

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

― William Congreve

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

― William Congreve

“Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.”

― William Congreve

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

― William Congreve

“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

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

― William Congreve

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

― William Congreve

“’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

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

― William Congreve

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

― William Congreve

“They come together like the Coroner’s Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.”

― William Congreve

“No, I’m no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.”

― William Congreve

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

― William Congreve

“Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.”

― William Congreve

“They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.”

― William Congreve

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

― William Congreve

“Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.”

― William Congreve

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

― William Congreve

“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

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

― William Congreve

“I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.”

― William Congreve

“Beauty is the lover’s gift.”

― William Congreve

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

― William Congreve

“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

“You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.”

― William Congreve

“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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