Best Quotes by William Congreve (Top 10)
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Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
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Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve
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Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
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Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand
William Congreve
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Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
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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.
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He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
William Congreve
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve
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If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
William Congreve
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Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.
William Congreve
More William Congreve Quotes
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Music hath charms to sooth a savage breast."
William Congreve
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Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
William Congreve
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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
William Congreve
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Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone.
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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
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In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
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I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.
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She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.
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I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
William Congreve
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You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
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Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
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A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
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Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
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O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.
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Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
William Congreve