“If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.”
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Famous William Congreve Quotes
“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
“I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.”
“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