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There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!
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Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.
William Congreve
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Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.
William Congreve -
Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.
William Congreve -
A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.
William Congreve -
If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
William Congreve -
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.
William Congreve -
I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.
William Congreve
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'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 -
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.
William Congreve -
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve -
Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.
William Congreve -
Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
William Congreve -
Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
William Congreve
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Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
William Congreve -
How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all.
William Congreve -
Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.
William Congreve -
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
William Congreve -
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
William Congreve -
You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
William Congreve
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Beauty is the lover's gift.
William Congreve -
One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
William Congreve -
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 -
Who pleases one against his will.
William Congreve