| 24 Famous Quotes by William Congreve
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“Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play”
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“Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.”
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“Sop to Cerebus.
If I can find Cerebus a sop, I shall be at rest for one day.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Love for Love (act I, sc. 1)
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“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn'd,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: The Mourning Bride (act III, sc. 2)
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“Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou
art the man in the moon.”
Wives Quotes Source: Love for Love (act II, sc. 1)
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“For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.”
Blessings Quotes Source: Mourning Bride (act V, sc. 3)
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“Beauty is the lover's gift.”
Beauty Quotes Source: The Way of the World (act II, sc. 2)
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“Defer not till to-morrow to be wise,
To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise;
Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight
With her enlivening and unlook'd for light,
How grateful will appear her dawning rays!
As favours unexpected doubly please.”
Tomorrow Quotes Source: Letter to Cobham (l. 61)
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“By magic numbers and persuasive sound.”
Sound Quotes Source: Mourning Bride (act I, sc. 1)
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“I came up-stairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.”
Ancestry Quotes Source: Love for Love (act II, sc. 1)
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“There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased,
They scarcely come inclining to be pleased:
And sure he must have more than mortal Skill,
Who please one against his Will.”
Criticism Quotes Source: The Way of the World (epilogue)
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“I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of
being dull.”
Stupidity Quotes Source: Old Bachelor (act II, 2)
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“Who pleases one against his will.”
Pleasure Quotes Source: The Way of the World--Epilogue
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“I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough
to be a wit.”
Wit Quotes Source: Love for Love (act I, sc. 1)
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“To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must
lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.”
Scandal Quotes Source: Love for Love (act I, sc. 2), "losing Loadum" is an old game which one plays to lose tricks
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“What, wouldst thou have me turn pelican, and feed thee out of my
own vitals?”
Pelicans Quotes Source: Love for Love (act II, sc. 1)
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“And the prettiest foot! Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes
to her feet, as they steal in and out, and play at bo-peep under
her petticoats!”
Feet Quotes Source: Love for Love (act I, sc. 1)
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“Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.”
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“Music hath charm to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”
Charm Quotes |
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“Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.”
Uncertainty Quotes |
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“Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.”
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“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”
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“Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.”
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“Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.”
Security Quotes |
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William Congreve Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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