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Quotes from The Way of the World — William Congreve

1670–1729 England

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

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They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.

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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.

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Love's but a frailty of the mind,
When 'tis not with ambition joined.

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If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see
That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me.

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Each deceiver to his cost may find
That marriage frauds too oft are paid in kind.

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I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.

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O, she is the antidote to desire.

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Let us be very strange and well-bred:
Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while;
And as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Congreve (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.