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Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Written by William Congreve
Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
Written by William Congreve
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
Written by William Congreve
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
Written by William Congreve
They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
Written by William Congreve
I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
Written by William Congreve
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
Written by William Congreve
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
Written by William Congreve
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
Written by William Congreve
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.
Written by William Congreve
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
Written by William Congreve
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Written by William Congreve
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
Written by William Congreve
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
Written by William Congreve
I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.
Written by William Congreve
Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
Written by William Congreve
No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
Written by William Congreve
Beauty is the lover's gift.
Written by William Congreve
A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.
Written by William Congreve
A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.
Written by William Congreve
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
Written by William Congreve
A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
Written by William Congreve
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
Written by William Congreve
I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
Written by William Congreve
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
Written by William Congreve
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 very hard task.
Written by William Congreve
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
Written by William Congreve
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
Written by William Congreve
You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
Written by William Congreve
She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.
Written by William Congreve

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