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Famous William Congreve Quotes
“I hope you do not think me prone to any iteration of nuptials.”
“O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.”
Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840
“Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.”
Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840
“Whoever is king, is also the father of his country.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar :
Source: The Way of the World: A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by His Majesty's Servants. Written by Mr. Congreve
“Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand”
“Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.”
“Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
“Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”
“Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.”
Source: The Poetical Works of William Congreve. With the Life of the Author. Cooke's Edition, Etc. [With a Portrait.]
“Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.”
Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840
“A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.”
Source: The Works of the English Poets
“Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.”
“I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.”
Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840
“If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.”
Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840
“There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.”
“Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.”
Source: The Double Dealer: A Comedy
“Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.”
“No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.”
Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840
Source: The Works of Mr William Congreve...