William Congreve Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
William Congreve quotes and sayings page 3 (poet). These are the last 10 out of 30 quotes we have.
“No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.”
“I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.”
“I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.”
“They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.”
“I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.”
“Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.”
“To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.”
“They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.”
“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.”
“A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.”
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