Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Whoever is king, is also the father of his country.
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
Father
Also
Country
Whoever
King
Kings
More quotes by William Congreve
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
O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.
William Congreve
Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.
William Congreve
I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
William Congreve
A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
William Congreve
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
William Congreve
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve
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
No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
William Congreve
One minute gives invention to destroy What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
William Congreve
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
William Congreve
Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.
William Congreve
Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone.
William Congreve
But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.
William Congreve
I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere.
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
There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.
William Congreve
Women like flames have a destroying power never to be quenched till they themselves devour.
William Congreve
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
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
William Congreve