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William Congreve Quotes - Page 1
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A little scorn is alluring.
William Congreve
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Playwright
Alluring
Littles
Scorn
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Beauty is the lover's gift.
William Congreve
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Playwright
Beauty
Romantic
Lovers
Lover
Gift
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O, she is the antidote to desire.
William Congreve
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Playwright
Antidote
Desire
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Who pleases one against his will.
William Congreve
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Please
Pleasure
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Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
William Congreve
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Playwright
Chocolate
Hell Hath No Fury
Mourning
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O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.
William Congreve
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Playwright
Kissing
Missing
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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
William Congreve
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Playwright
Anger
Angry
Bed
Go
Never
Stay
Fight
Up
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Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast...
William Congreve
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Playwright
Charm
Inspiration
Savages
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How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all.
William Congreve
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Playwright
Hard
Please
Theatre
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No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
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Enemy
Hurt
It Hurts
Hurts
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Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.
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Whoever is king, is also the father of his country.
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Kings
Country
Father
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I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.
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Knows
Secret
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I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.
William Congreve
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Secret
Everywhere
Whispered
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A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.
William Congreve
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Playwright
Constant
Sincere
Wit
Woman
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Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
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Cutting
Diamond
Diamond Rings
Jewelry
Wit
Cut
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A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.
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Alluring
Disdain
Scorn
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I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
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Born
Upstairs
World
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If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
William Congreve
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Love
Free Love
Madness
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I hope you do not think me prone to any iteration of nuptials.
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There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.
William Congreve
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May
Timeliness
Wells
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I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.
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Journey
Knowledge
Firsts
Opinion
Speak
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I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.
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Country
Diversion
Walking
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Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.
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Love
Ambition
Mind
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I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
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Blushing
Breeding
Guilt
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Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.
William Congreve
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Playwright
Art
Phrases
Remnants
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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
William Congreve
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Playwright
Marriage
Dating
Courtship
Dull
Play
Witty
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Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
William Congreve
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Playwright
Love
Life
Has Beens
Loved
Tis
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O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.
William Congreve
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Playwright
Confusion
Couches
Levees
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Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
William Congreve
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Playwright
Wise
Delay
Procrastination
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No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
William Congreve
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Playwright
Deceit
Honesty
Lying
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Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
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Playwright
Men
Forgiving
Goodness
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Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
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Marriage
Men
Two
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He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
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Playwright
Honesty
Thieves
Treasure
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I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
William Congreve
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Playwright
Danger
Growing
Serious
Stupid People
Stupidity
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I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.
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Playwright
Fool
Heaven
Helping
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Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.
William Congreve
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Black
Brain
Despair
Flags
Invention
Muddy
Study
Succeeds
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Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
William Congreve
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Playwright
Grief
Haste
Heels
Leisure
Married
Pleasure
Repent
Walks
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve
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Playwright
Expectations
Insipid
Joy
Risk
Security
Uncertainty
Expectation
Joys
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It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
William Congreve
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Kindness
Business
Vices
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One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
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Playwright
Age
Giving
Invention
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Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
William Congreve
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Playwright
Blessing
Deeds
Waiting
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Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
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Playwright
Inspirational
Music
Hell Hath No Fury
Rocks
Bend
Charms
Oak
Savage
Soften
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Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.
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Cold
Speech
Support
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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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Lays
Mind
Of My Mind
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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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Anger
Fury
Hatred
Heaven
Rage
Scorned
Like
Woman
Nor
Turned
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Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand
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Playwright
Admiration
Hands
Understanding
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A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
William Congreve
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Playwright
Running
Herds
Hungry
Run
Herd
Hopes
Wolf
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If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
William Congreve
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Playwright
Wise
Blessed
Self
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Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.
William Congreve
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Calm
Charm
Mind
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