Best Quotes by William Congreve (Top 10)

  1. Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
  2. Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
  3. Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
  4. Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand
  5. Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
  6. But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.
  7. If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
  8. Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
  9. He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
  10. Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.

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