There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!
WILLIAM CONGREVE, The Double Dealer
The good receiv'd, the giver is forgot.
WILLIAM CONGREVE, epistle to Lord Halifax
He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
WILLIAM CONGREVE, Love for Love
Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull Play.
WILLIAM CONGREVE, The Old Bachelor
Tho' marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
WILLIAM CONGREVE, The Double Dealer
- Women are like tricks by sleight of hand,
- Which, to admire, we should not understand.
WILLIAM CONGREVE, Love for Love
- Music alone with sudden charms can bind
- The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.
WILLIAM CONGREVE, Hymn to Harmony
- Defer not till to-morrow to be wise,
- To-morrow’s sun to thee may never rise.
WILLIAM CONGREVE, letter to Cobham
To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.
WILLIAM CONGREVE, Love for Love
Music has charms to soothe the savage breast.
WILLIAM CONGREVE, The Mourning Bride
- No mask like open truth to cover lies,
- As to go naked is the best disguise.
WILLIAM CONGREVE, The Double Dealer
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