Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.
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
Placed
Leisure
Married
Words
Experience
Find
Haste
Repent
More quotes by William Congreve
A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
William Congreve
No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
William Congreve
Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.
William Congreve
I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
William Congreve
A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
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
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
William Congreve
He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
William Congreve
O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.
William Congreve
Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
William Congreve
She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces sifted her, and separated her failings I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily.
William Congreve
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.
William Congreve
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
William Congreve
I nauseate walking 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.
William Congreve
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
William Congreve
There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.
William Congreve
Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
William Congreve
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.
William Congreve
I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.
William Congreve
Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's Sun to thee may never rise Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook'd for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please.
William Congreve
