William Congreve Quotes
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
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.
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
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.
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
