William Congreve Quotes
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
William Congreve
Quotes to Explore
I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
Yves Saint Laurent
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Iris Murdoch
Often I play, especially on television, a lot of smart lawyer people and cerebral types.
Laila Robins
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
L. Sprague de Camp
Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
Zhuangzi
When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.
Laura Prepon
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
Saadi
If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
Taron Egerton
I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
Patrick Rafter
A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
Adam Draper
I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
Damien Chazelle
I was rubbish at school.
Olivia Colman
