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William Congreve
43 quotes
“Ah! Whither, whither shall I fly, A poor unhappy Maid; To hopeless Love and Misery By my own Heart betray’d?”
William Congreve (1670–1729) first seen 1692 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Incognita: Or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd (1692)
“Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) first seen 1710 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Amoret", line 7 (1710)
“Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) first seen 1720 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Impossible Thing", line 105 (1720)
“Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pious Selinda goes to Pray’rs, If I but ask the Favour; And yet the tender Fool’s in Tears, When she believes I’ll leave her.Wou’d I were free from Restraint, Or else had Hopes to win her; Wou’d she cou’d make of me a Saint, Or I of her a Sinner.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) first seen 1704 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Song"; Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (1704), p. 362
“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.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Eternity was in that moment.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now will I, in my old way, discover the whole and real truth of the matter to him, that he may not suspect one word on’t.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And the prettiest foot! Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet, as they steal in and out, and play at bo-peep under her petticoats!”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thou liar of the first magnitude.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I warrant you, if he danced till doomsday, he thought I was to pay the piper.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak. I've read, that things inanimate have mov'd, And, as with living Souls, have been inform'd, By Magick Numbers and persuasive Sound. What then am I? Am I more senseless grown Than Trees, or Flint? O force of constant Woe! 'Tis not in Harmony to calm my Griefs. Anselmo sleeps, and is at Peace; last Night The silent Tomb receiv'd the good Old King; He and his Sorrows now are safely lodg'd Within its cold, but hospitable Bosom. Why am not I at Peace?”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Vile and ingrate! too late thou shalt repent The base Injustice thou hast done my Love: Yes, thou shalt know, spite of thy past Distress, And all those Ills which thou so long hast mourn'd; Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Say what you will, tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; And as well-bred as if we were not married at all.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants, like a maker of pincushions; thou art in truth (metaphorically speaking) a speaker of shorthand.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O, she is the antidote to desire.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Each deceiver to his cost may find That marriage frauds too oft are paid in kind.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“By magic numbers and persuasive sound.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“If there 's delight in love, 't is when I see That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise.”
William Congreve (1670–1729) said by 1729 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source