William Congreve Quotes
Top 78 wise famous quotes and sayings by William Congreve
William Congreve Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.
These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.
You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
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.
Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root?
There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!
A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
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.
They could not always last;
And though the present I regret,
I'm grateful for the past.
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
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.
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.
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.