Quote

Women like flames have a destroying power never to be quenched till they themselves devour.

William Congreve

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Congreve
Age: 58 †
Born: 1670
Born: January 24
Died: 1729
Died: January 19
Engineer
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Writer
Like
Quenched
Devour
Flames
Destroying
Till
Power
Women
Never

More quotes by William Congreve

Image
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
William Congreve
Image
I am a fool, I know it and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.
William Congreve
Image
Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
William Congreve
Image
Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.
William Congreve
Image
There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.
William Congreve
Image
O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.
William Congreve
Image
Delay not till tomorrow to be wise tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
William Congreve
Image
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.
William Congreve
Image
I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
William Congreve
Image
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
Image
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
William Congreve
Image
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.
William Congreve
Image
These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.
William Congreve
Image
O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.
William Congreve
Image
Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.
William Congreve
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 those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose.
William Congreve
Image
If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
William Congreve
Image
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand
William Congreve
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
Image
No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me.
William Congreve