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I came up stairs into the wor...

I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.

William Congreve 128 quotes

O ay, letters - I had letters...

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 128 quotes

Marriage indeed may qualify t...

Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.

William Congreve 128 quotes

Invention flags, his brain go...

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.

William Congreve 128 quotes

I know a lady that loves to t...

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 128 quotes

No mask like open truth to co...

No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.

William Congreve 128 quotes

Men are apt to offend ('tis t...

Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

William Congreve 128 quotes

O, nothing is more alluring t...

O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.

William Congreve 128 quotes

To converse with Scandal is t...

To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.

William Congreve 128 quotes

Every man plays the fool once...

Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.

William Congreve 128 quotes

She once used me with that in...

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.

William Congreve 128 quotes

Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do...

Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."

William Congreve 128 quotes

All well bred persons lie - B...

All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think.

William Congreve 128 quotes

Love's but the frailty of the...

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 128 quotes

There are times when sense ma...

There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.

William Congreve 128 quotes

If happiness in self-content ...

If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.

William Congreve 128 quotes

These articles subscribed, if...

These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.

William Congreve 128 quotes

A wit should no more be since...

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

William Congreve 128 quotes

Thus grief still treads upon ...

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

William Congreve 128 quotes

There is in true Beauty, as i...

There is in true Beauty, as in Courage, somewhat which narrow Souls cannot dare to admire.

William Congreve 128 quotes

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