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He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views - William Congreve Quotes

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

William Congreve

Would she could make of me a saint,Or I of her a sinner. - William Congreve Quotes

Would she could make of me a saint,Or I of her a sinner.

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 Quotes

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

William Congreve

Fear

A branch of one of your antediluvian families, fellows that the flood could not wash away. - William Congreve Quotes

A branch of one of your antediluvian families, fellows that the flood could not wash away.

William Congreve

These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into a wife. - William Congreve Quotes

These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into a wife.

William Congreve

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable. - William Congreve Quotes

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

William Congreve

They come together like the coroner's inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week. - William Congreve Quotes

They come together like the coroner's inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.

William Congreve

A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring. - William Congreve Quotes

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

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 Quotes

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

English Poet Fools And Foolishness

One of love's April-fools. - William Congreve Quotes

One of love's April-fools.

William Congreve

If I have not fretted myself till I am pale again, there's no veracity in me. - William Congreve Quotes

If I have not fretted myself till I am pale again, there's no veracity in me.

William Congreve

There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased,They scarcely come inclining to be pleased:And sure he must have more than mortal Skill,Who please one against his Will. - William Congreve Quotes

There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased,They scarcely come inclining to be pleased:And sure he must have more than mortal Skill,Who please one against his Will.

William Congreve

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections - William Congreve Quotes

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

William Congreve

Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err: Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock we're broke, And all our boasted Fire is lost in Smoke - William Congreve Quotes

Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err: Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock we're broke, And all our boasted Fire is lost in Smoke

William Congreve

Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd - William Congreve Quotes

Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd

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 Quotes

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

Hate

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 Quotes

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.

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Heaven Hath no rage like a love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned - William Congreve Quotes

Heaven Hath no rage like a love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned

William Congreve

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

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

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 Quotes

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

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one - William Congreve Quotes

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

William Congreve

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. - William Congreve Quotes

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve

English Poet Music

Wit must be foiled by wit : cut a diamond with a diamond - William Congreve Quotes

Wit must be foiled by wit : cut a diamond with a diamond

William Congreve

Wit

If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see That heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me - William Congreve Quotes

If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see That heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me

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Heart

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 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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Business English Poet

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me. - William Congreve Quotes

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

William Congreve

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them. - William Congreve Quotes

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them.

William Congreve

Friends Or Friendship

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play - William Congreve Quotes

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

William Congreve

Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named. - William Congreve Quotes

Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.

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Woman

Women are like tricks by light of hand,Which, to admire, we should not understand. - William Congreve Quotes

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

William Congreve

Women

Whom she refuses, she treats still / With so much sweet behaviour, / That her refusal, through her skill, / Looks almost like a favour. - William Congreve Quotes

Whom she refuses, she treats still / With so much sweet behaviour, / That her refusal, through her skill, / Looks almost like a favour.

William Congreve

Skill

O fie miss, you must not kiss and tell. - William Congreve Quotes

O fie miss, you must not kiss and tell.

William Congreve

Beauty is the lover's gift - William Congreve Quotes

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 Quotes

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

William Congreve

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom. - William Congreve Quotes

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

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Custom English Poet

Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive. - William Congreve Quotes

Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

William Congreve

I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding. - William Congreve Quotes

I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.

William Congreve

Guilt

She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces; sifted her, and separated her failings; I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily. - William Congreve Quotes

She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces; sifted her, and separated her failings; I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily.

William Congreve

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. - William Congreve Quotes

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

William Congreve

Danger English Poet

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant - William Congreve Quotes

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant

William Congreve

Wit

I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion; I loathe the country - William Congreve Quotes

I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion; I loathe the country

William Congreve

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

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

William Congreve

English Poet Leisure

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire. - William Congreve Quotes

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

William Congreve

Beauty English Poet

By magic numbers and persuasive sound. - William Congreve Quotes

By magic numbers and persuasive sound.

William Congreve

Magic

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight. - William Congreve Quotes

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

William Congreve

Bed English Poet

Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. - William Congreve Quotes

Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

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 Quotes

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

William Congreve

Wit

You were about to tell me something, child, but you left off before you began. - William Congreve Quotes

You were about to tell me something, child, but you left off before you began.

William Congreve

I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first. - William Congreve Quotes

I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.

William Congreve

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

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

William Congreve

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