Being wise Quote by William Congreve

Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with…

— William Congreve

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

— William Congreve

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly…

— William Congreve

“One no more owes one's beauty to a lover than one's wit to an echo”

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I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

— William Congreve

Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root?

— William Congreve

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

— William Congreve

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

— William Congreve

There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.

— William Congreve

I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

— William Congreve

There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!

— William Congreve

Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go…

— William Congreve