Quotes by William Congreve

“You'll grow devilish fat upon this paper-diet!”

“He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.”

“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.”

“In hours of bliss we oft have met:They could not always last;And though the present I regret,I'm grateful for the past.”

“Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”

“Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”

“There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.”

“Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.”

“Beauty is the lover's gift.”

“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”

“Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.”

“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”

“Heav'n has no rage like love to hatred turn'd Nor Hell a fury like a woman scorn'd.”

“Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.”

“Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear.”

“In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me for she never speaks well of me herself nor suffers anybody else to rail at me.”

“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned.”

“Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure Marry'd in hast we may repent at leisure.”

“Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.”

“Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.”