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William Congreve Quotes
Page 2 of 2William Congreve
February 10, 1670 - January 19, 1729
Nationality: English
Category: Poet
Subcategory: English Poet
|  Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. | | They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week. | | Music hath charms to soothe a savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. | | She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises. | | Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond. | | I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. | | If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable. | | Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure. | | Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. | | Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass. |
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