William Congreve quotes - page 3

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant. (William Congreve)
No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise. View quote
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I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding. View quote
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I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first. View quote
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These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into a wife. View quote
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She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces sifted her, and separated her failings I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily. View quote
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Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants. View quote
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Every man plays the fool once in his life, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long. View quote
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A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty. View quote
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Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named. View quote
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I hope you do not think me prone to an iteration of nuptials. (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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Act V, scene iv. View quote
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William Congreve

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Occupation: English Poet
Born: January 24, 1670
Died: January 19, 1729
Quotes count: 64
Wikipedia: William Congreve

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