10 interesting quotes by william congreve
- Say what you will, “it is better to be left than never to have been loved.”
- Heav’n hath no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn’d, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn’d.
- Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
- If there’s delight in love, ‘Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
- Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.
- 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.
- Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.” (quoted in Life After Life).
- 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.
- 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.
- I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
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