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Let us be very strange and well-bred:Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while;And as well-bred as if we were not married at all.
— William Congreve
I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.
— William Congreve
Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.
— William Congreve
Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.
— William Congreve
I hope you do not think me prone to any iteration of nuptials.
— William Congreve
Whoever is king, is also the father of his country.
— William Congreve
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
— William Congreve
Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
— William Congreve
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though late, a sure reward succeeds.
— William Congreve
These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.
— William Congreve
Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
— William Congreve
One no more owes one's beauty to a lover than one's wit to an echo
— William Congreve
Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
— William Congreve
Music hath charms to sooth a savage breast.
— William Congreve
Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
— William Congreve
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand,
Which, to admire, we should not understand — William Congreve
Which, to admire, we should not understand — William Congreve
How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all.
— William Congreve
O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.
— William Congreve
No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
— William Congreve
A little scorn is alluring.
— William Congreve
Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
— 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
I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.
— William Congreve
Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.
— William Congreve
A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.
— William Congreve
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
— 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
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
A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.
— William Congreve
Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root?
— William Congreve
Heav'n hath no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd. — William Congreve
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd. — William Congreve
O, she is the antidote to desire.
— William Congreve
There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!
— William Congreve
No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
— William Congreve
A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
— William Congreve
If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
— William Congreve
A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
— William Congreve
Beauty is the lover's gift.
— William Congreve
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
— William Congreve
Musick has charms to soothe a savage breast
— William Congreve
Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.
— William Congreve
O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.
— William Congreve
Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.
— William Congreve
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
— William Congreve
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
— William Congreve
Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.
— William Congreve
In hours of bliss we oft have met:
They could not always last;
And though the present I regret,
I'm grateful for the past. — William Congreve
They could not always last;
And though the present I regret,
I'm grateful for the past. — William Congreve
Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.
— William Congreve
I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
— William Congreve
I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
— William Congreve
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
— William Congreve
There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.
— William Congreve
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
— William Congreve
You'll grow devilish fat upon this paper-diet!
— William Congreve
Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.
— 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
Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
— William Congreve
I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.
— William Congreve
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
— 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
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
— William Congreve
Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.
— William Congreve
To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.
— William Congreve
Who pleases one against his will.
— William Congreve
Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.
— William Congreve
Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.
— 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