Converses Quote by William Congreve

“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

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

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“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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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