William Congreve Quotes About Wit

Quotes about: Wit

• Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.

  William Congreve

  Cutting, Jewelry, Diamond Rings

  William Congreve (1797). “The Double Dealer: A Comedy”, p.22

• Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

  William Congreve

  Father, Glasses, Idlers

  William Congreve (1753). “The Works of Mr William Congreve...”, p.4

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

  William Congreve

  Beauty, Decay, Arguing

  1700 The Way of the World, act 1, sc.6.

• I am a fool, I know it; and yet, Heaven help me, I'm poor enough to be a wit.

  William Congreve

  Heaven, Fool, Helping

  William Congreve (1785). “Love for Love: A Comedy”, p.6

• To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.

  William Congreve

  Eye, Tasks, World

  'Love for Love' (1695) act 5, sc. 2

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