William Congreve Quotes

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve

Anger, Love, Woman

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
William Congreve

Love, Loved, Left

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve

Music, Rocks, Bend

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
William Congreve

Anger, Angry, Fight

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
William Congreve

Confidence, Integrity, Others

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
William Congreve

Fear, Worth, Whether

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

Woman, May, Words

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
William Congreve

Marriage, Play, Witty

A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.
William Congreve

Disdain, Scorn, Alluring

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve

Life, Security, Joys

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
William Congreve

Through, Sure, Run

I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where.
William Congreve

Secret, Whispered

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
William Congreve

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

Else, She, Conscience

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

Others, She, While

Beauty is the lover's gift.
William Congreve

Beauty, Gift, Lover

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
William Congreve

Love, Heart, Others

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
William Congreve

Beauty, Courage, True

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

Diamond, Cut, Wit

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.
William Congreve

Woman, Sincere, Constant

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
William Congreve

Married, Pleasure, Grief

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
William Congreve

Long, Monkey, Confess

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
William Congreve

Great, Find, Serious

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.
William Congreve

Brain, Black, Study

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
William Congreve

Learning, Enemy, Hurts

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: February 10, 1670

Died: January 19, 1729

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