"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
--William Congreve Topic: Reward
"Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds."
--William Congreve
"Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise."
--William Congreve
"Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure."
--William Congreve
"He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure."
--William Congreve
Topic: Anger
"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
--William Congreve
"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
--William Congreve
"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
--William Congreve
Topic: Hate
"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
--William Congreve
"Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd."
--William Congreve
"I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar."
--William Congreve
"I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull."
--William Congreve
"If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me."
--William Congreve
"If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable."
--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
"Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study."
--William Congreve
Topic: Insults
"Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive."
--William Congreve
"Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."
--William Congreve
Topic: Music
"Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast,
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
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--William Congreve
"Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."
--William Congreve
"Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight."
--William Congreve
"They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom."
--William Congreve
"They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week."
--William Congreve
"'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman."
--William Congreve
Topic: Security
"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase."
--William Congreve
"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing."
--William Congreve
