Catalogues Quote by William Congreve

Her contempt for me was so strong, that it became infectious, and I caught it.

— Charles Dickens

One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.

— Arthur Rimbaud

“And who would not risk its terrors to gain its raptures? Ah, what raptures they were! The mere recollection thrills you. How delicious it…

— Jerome K. Jerome

Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me…

— Stephen King

Her violence frightened me. She always claimed that I was the jealous one, and I was often jealous, but when I saw things working…

— Charles Bukowski

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I…

— Anne Bronte

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

— Mark Twain

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

— Roger Penrose

“How despicably I have acted!" she cried; "I, who have prided myself on my discernment! I, who have valued myself on my abilities! who…

— Jane Austen

she had something I could not have, and so I resented her—but I realized the fault was mine and not hers.

— Sharon Shinn

She played me like a violin broken strings Trying to survive all this time But all she could do was break me in two.

— Jeremy Limn

I was a Versace perfume girl at Saks Fifth Avenue, and Rihanna actually came up to the counter and asked for something. And she…

— Bebe Rexha