Destroying Quote by William Congreve Download Open image “Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour.” — William Congreve ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Destroying Destroying Power Feminism Flames Flames Destroying Like Flames Women
Women don't seek power for its own sake, but to make a difference and overcome each challenge — Kathleen Wynne Copy Share Image
Women do not want power over men, they want power over themselves. — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Every girl is a simple flame. It takes just one man to ignite them into a wildfire. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition. — Arthur Desmond Copy Share Image
Women will have all the power one day anyway. It's just a matter of time. — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
Woman is perpetual revolution, and is that element in the world which continually destroys and recreates. — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“One no more owes one's beauty to a lover than one's wit to an echo” — william congreve Copy Share Image
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion! — William Congreve Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
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Time is a corrosive fluid, dissolving motivation, destroying novelty, and leaching the joy from life. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
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