Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
You are a woman: you must never speak what you think your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
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
Thinking
Words
Woman
Speak
Action
May
Contradict
Must
Contradiction
Never
Actions
Think
Thoughts
More quotes by William Congreve
I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
William Congreve
One minute gives invention to destroy What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
William Congreve
I hope you do not think me prone to any iteration of nuptials.
William Congreve
They are at the end of the gallery retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.
William Congreve
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
William Congreve
There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.
William Congreve
No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
William Congreve
I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
William Congreve
O, she is the antidote to desire.
William Congreve
O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.
William Congreve
Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life security is an insipid thing and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
William Congreve
Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.
William Congreve
Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast...
William Congreve
Women like flames have a destroying power never to be quenched till they themselves devour.
William Congreve
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
William Congreve
I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.
William Congreve
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
William Congreve
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve
I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
William Congreve