William Congreve Quotes

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William Congreve

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• Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • God
  • War
  • Man

• There is no such thing as ugly.

  

  Zendaya
  • Ugly
  • Thing

• Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

  

  Sam Brown
  • People
  • You
  • Style

• I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Good
  • Children
  • Education

• There are a lot of good men's magazines. In England, you have 'Arena Homme+' and 'Another Man;' and in France we have 'L'Officiel Hommes.' But all are looking similar.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Men
  • Man

• Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of that stuff. I don't look at the Internet, although I know people tell me I'm all over it. Somebody told me they Googled me, and they said I was mentioned two million times, some stupid thing... but who cares?

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Live
  • Stupid

• For a long time, I said I didn't want to model. I was a dancer.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Time
  • Long
  • Want

• People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Up
  • Generation

• But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for.

  

  Kate Adie
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Information

• In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Safety
  • Speed
  • Ice

• Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old Man Nathan!'

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Man
  • Sleep
  • Old

• I could play for the worst team if they paid the most... If the last-place team offers $200 million and the first-place team offers $10, I'm going to go for the $200-million no matter what team it was.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Team
  • Matter
  • Most

• I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Free
  • Sometimes

• I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Serious

• There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • Different
  • Direction
  • Speed

• Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

  

  Samuel McChord Crothers
  • Different
  • May
  • Amazing

• I mean... directing is a holy, unpleasant experience, to be perfectly honest.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Experience
  • Mean
  • Honest

• Valuation is what people are willing to pay.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • People
  • Pay
  • Willing

• O, when the heart is, full, when bitter thoughts come crowding thickly up for utterance, and the poor common words of courtesy are such a very mockery, how much the bursting heart may pour itself in prayer!

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Heart
  • Prayer
  • Poor

• Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right? I know it sounds nonsense, but, I mean, you can't just say there is no such thing. The Might is there, in the bad half of people, and you can't neglect it. You can't cut it out but you might be able to direct it, if you see what I mean, so that it was useful instead of bad.

  

  T. H. White
  • People
  • Why
  • Bad

• I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Clothes
  • Obsessed

• I am confident that in the end freedom and democracy will prevail over terror and tyranny. We will win this war on terror - and when we do Americans, the British, Iraqis, and people around the world will be more secure.

  

  Doc Hastings
  • People
  • World
  • War

• Don't talk anybody, don't come near! Can't you see the fish might hear? He thinks I'm playing with a piece of string; He thinks I'm another sort of funny thing, But he doesn't know I'm fishing - He doesn't know I'm fishing. That's what I'm doing - Fishing.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Sea

• Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

  

  William Congreve
  • Cutting
  • Diamond
  • Jewelry