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William Congreve Inspirational Quotes (84)

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There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.
William Congreve
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If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
William Congreve
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O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair.
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Who pleases one against his will.
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Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
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Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.
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How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all.
William Congreve
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It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
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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.
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Let us be very strange and well-bred:Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great whileAnd as well-bred as if we were not married at all.
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I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.
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Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined A sickly flame, which if not fed expires And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.
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I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
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Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
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They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
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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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Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.
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Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.
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Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone.
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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.
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These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.
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If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
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Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
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Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.
William Congreve
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