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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

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

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

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

One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit. — 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

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

Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour. — William Congreve

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
(quoted in Life After Life) — William Congreve