Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
William Congreve
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
William Congreve
Age: 58 †
Born: 1670
Born: January 24
Died: 1729
Died: January 19
Engineer
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Translator
Writer
Chocolate
Hell
Woman
Misquoting
Like
Medea
Scorned
Mourning
Fury
Scorn
More quotes by William Congreve
Whoever is king, is also the father of his country.
William Congreve
A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
William Congreve
I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.
William Congreve
Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
William Congreve
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve
Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
William Congreve
Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
William Congreve
I nauseate walking 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.
William Congreve
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
William Congreve
If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
William Congreve
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
O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.
William Congreve
I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
William Congreve
Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.
William Congreve
Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.
William Congreve
No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me.
William Congreve
Words are the weak support of cold indifference love has no language to be heard.
William Congreve
Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.
William Congreve
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand
William Congreve