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“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.”
Source: The Works of Mr. Congreve in Two Volumes
“Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.”
Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840
“Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.”
Source: The old bachelor. The double-dealer. Love for love
“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.”
Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840
“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.”
“I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.”
“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.”
Source: British Theatre: Bonduca
“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.”
Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840
“Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.”
Source: British Theatre: Bonduca
Source: Love for Love: A Comedy
“All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think.”
Source: Love for Love
“Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.”
Source: The Old Batchelour ... The fourth edition, corrected
“Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.”
Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840
“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.”
Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840
“If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar: With Biographical and Critical Notices
“One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.”
Source: The old batchelor. The double-dealer. Love for love. The mourning bride
“A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.”
Source: THE ENGLISH THEATRE IN EIGHT VOLUMES: CONTAINING The Most Valuable PLAYS Which Have Been Acted on the LONDON STAGE.. INCONSTANT. By Mr. Farzuhar ; LOVE FOR LOVE. By Mr. Congreve ; LOVE MAKES A MAN. By C. Cibber, Esq. ; LYING LOVER. By Sir Rich. Steele ; PROVOKED WIFE. By Sir John Vanbrugh. VOL. V.
“There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.”
Source: The Double-Dealer, a comedy, etc
Source: Love for Love. A Comedy: Written by Mr. Congreve
“O, she is the antidote to desire.”
Source: British Theatre: Bonduca
“I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.”
Source: Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840
Source: Love for Love
“I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.”
Source: Love for Love: A Comedy