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
Also
Country
Whoever
King
Kings
Father
More quotes by William Congreve
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
William Congreve
I know a lady that loves to talk so incessantly, she won't give an echo fair play she has that everlasting rotation of tongue that an echo must wait till she dies before it can catch her last words!
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
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
Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast...
William Congreve
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
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
He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
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
She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises.
William Congreve
Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.
William Congreve
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
William Congreve
Women like flames have a destroying power never to be quenched till they themselves devour.
William Congreve
Delay not till tomorrow to be wise tomorrow's sun to thee may neve rise.
William Congreve
I am a fool, I know it and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.
William Congreve
O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.
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 came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
William Congreve
Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.
William Congreve