Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve Quotes
1670–1729 England
William Congreve (24 January 1670 – 19 January 1729) was an English playwright and poet.
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- Poets
Also known as: Congreve, Congreve, William
48 quotes
I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
The Old Bachelor (1693)
I warrant you, if he danced till doomsday, he thought I was to pay the piper.
Love for Love (1695)
Love for Love (1695)
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand,
Which, to admire, we should not understand.
Love for Love (1695)
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
The Mourning Bride (1697)
Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
The Double Dealer (1694)
Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
The Old Bachelor (1693)
Say what you will, tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
The Way of the World (1700)
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
The Old Bachelor (1693)
I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where.
Love for Love (1695)
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
The Way of the World (1700)
Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.
Love for Love (1695)
Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
The Double Dealer (1694)
O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.
Love for Love (1695)
The Way of the World (1700)
There is in true beauty, as in courage, somewhat which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
The Old Bachelor (1693)
Love's but a frailty of the mind,
When 'tis not with ambition joined.
The Way of the World (1700)
I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
Love for Love (1695)
Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
The Mourning Bride (1697)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Congreve (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.