Quote

O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.

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
Levees
Alluring
Couch
Couches
Confusion
Nothing

More quotes by William Congreve

Image
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
William Congreve
Image
Words are the weak support of cold indifference love has no language to be heard.
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
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
A little scorn is alluring.
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
I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.
William Congreve
Image
I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
William Congreve
Image
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
William Congreve
Image
Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
William Congreve
Image
O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.
William Congreve
Image
Whoever is king, is also the father of his country.
William Congreve
Image
Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
William Congreve
Image
Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.
William Congreve
Image
Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.
William Congreve
Image
I hope you do not think me prone to any iteration of nuptials.
William Congreve
Image
I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.
William Congreve
Image
Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.
William Congreve
Image
Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast...
William Congreve