Top 70 William Congreve Quotes (2024 Update)
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William Congreve Quote: “Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow’s Sun to thee may never rise; Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook’d for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please.”

51. “Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow’s Sun to thee may never rise; Or should to-morrow chance to cheer thy sight With her enlivening and unlook’d for light, How grateful will appear her dawning rays! As favours unexpected doubly please.”

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William Congreve Quote: “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.”

52. “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

William Congreve Quote: “O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.”

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

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William Congreve Quote: “It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.”

54. “It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.”

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William Congreve Quote: “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.”

55. “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.”

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William Congreve Quote: “Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.”

56. “Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.”

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William Congreve Quote: “If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.”

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

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William Congreve Quote: “Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.”

58. “Would any thing but a madman complain of uncertainty? Uncertainty and expectation are joys of life; security is an insipid thing; and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.”

— William Congreve

William Congreve Quote: “Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.”

59. “Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.”

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William Congreve Quote: “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.”

60. “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.”

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William Congreve Quote: “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.”

61. “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.”

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William Congreve Quote: “No, I’m no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.”

62. “No, I’m no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.”

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William Congreve Quote: “Music hath charms to sooth a savage breast.”

63. “Music hath charms to sooth a savage breast.”

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William Congreve Quote: “Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man’s manners.”

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

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William Congreve Quote: “I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.”

65. “I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.”

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William Congreve Quote: “They come together like the Coroner’s Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.”

66. “They come together like the Coroner’s Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.”

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William Congreve Quote: “I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.”

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

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William Congreve Quote: “A little scorn is alluring.”

68. “A little scorn is alluring.”

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William Congreve Quote: “Whoever is king, is also the father of his country.”

69. “Whoever is king, is also the father of his country.”

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William Congreve Quote: “Who pleases one against his will.”

70. “Who pleases one against his will.”

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William Congreve Quote: “I hope you do not think me prone to any iteration of nuptials.”

71. “I hope you do not think me prone to any iteration of nuptials.”

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William Congreve Quote: “Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.”

72. “Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.”

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William Congreve Quote: “Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t’other.”

73. “Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t’other.”

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William Congreve Quote: “I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.”

74. “I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.”

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William Congreve Quote: “There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.”

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

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William Congreve Quote: “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.”

76. “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.”

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William Congreve Quote: “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.”

77. “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.”

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William Congreve Quote: “Why will mankind be fools, and be deceived? And why are friends’ and lovers’ oaths believed; When each, who searches strictly his own mind, May so much fraud and power of baseness find?”

78. “Why will mankind be fools, and be deceived? And why are friends’ and lovers’ oaths believed; When each, who searches strictly his own mind, May so much fraud and power of baseness find?”

— William Congreve

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