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Famous William Congreve Quotes
“Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.”
“They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.”
“Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.”
“Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.”
“Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.”
“Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.”
“Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.”
“I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.”
“If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.”
“Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.”
“Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.”
“No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.”
“Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.”
“It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.”
“How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all.”
“Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.”
“All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think.”
“Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.”
“Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.”
“He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.”
“I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.”
“If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.”
“One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.”
“A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.”
“There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.”
“O, she is the antidote to desire.”
“I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.”
“I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.”