All William Congreve Quotes
- Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you. Hold
- Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. Anger
- If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable. Love
- A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant. Constant
- A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring. Alluring
- 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… Eye
- You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words. Actions
- Beauty is the lover's gift Beauty
- Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds Blessings
- Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err: Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock we're broke, And… All
- Believe it, Men have ever been the same, And all the Golden Age is but a Dream. Age
- I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where. Secret
- They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week. Come Together
- Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of… Chase
- Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned Anger