All Quotes by William Congreve
“Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.”
“No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.”
“Ah! Whither, whither shall I fly,By my own Heart betray’d?”
“Careless she is with artful care,Affecting to seem unaffected.”
“Invention flags, his brain goes muddy,And black despair succeeds brown study.”
“Defer not till tomorrow to be wise,Tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.”
“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.”
“Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.”
“I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.”
“Eternity was in that moment.”
“If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.”
“Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.”
“Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.”
“It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.”
“Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.”
“Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.”
“Now will I, in my old way, discover the whole and real truth of the matter to him, that he may not suspect one word on’t.”
“Thou liar of the first magnitude.”
“I warrant you, if he danced till doomsday, he thought I was to pay the piper.”
“Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude.”
“I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.”
“O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.”
“I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where.”
“Women are like tricks by sleight of hand,Which, to admire, we should not understand.”
“Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.”
“'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.”
“Vile and ingrate! too late thou shalt repent Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.”
“They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.”
“Say what you will, tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
“Love's but a frailty of the mind,When 'tis not with ambition joined.”
“If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me.”
“I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.”
“Let us be very strange and well-bred:And as well-bred as if we were not married at all.”
“Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants, like a maker of pincushions; thou art in truth (metaphorically speaking) a speaker of shorthand.”
“O, she is the antidote to desire.”
“Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.”
“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”
“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”
“There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.”
“Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
“Beauty is the lover's gift.”
“Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.”