William Congreve Quotes
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Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.
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O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.
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To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
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Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.
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Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.
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Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.
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Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
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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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If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
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I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.
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Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.
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How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all.
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It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
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He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
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Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
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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.
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I hope you do not think me prone to any iteration of nuptials.
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Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
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Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
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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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Who pleases one against his will.
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Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
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One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.