William Congreve Quotes & Sayings
30 most famous William Congreve quotes and sayings (poet). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”
“Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”
“Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.”
“'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.”
“There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.”
“He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.”
“Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.”
“Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.”
“Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.”
“Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
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