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• 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

  Echoes, Play, Giving

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.268

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• O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.

  William Congreve

  Kissing, Missing

  Love for Love act 2, sc. 10 (1695)

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• Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast...

  William Congreve

  Inspiration, Savages, Charm

  "The Mourning Bride". Book by William Congreve, 1697.

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• Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.

  William Congreve

  Support, Speech, Cold

  William Congreve (1752). “The old bachelor. The double-dealer. Love for love”, p.180

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• I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

  William Congreve

  Science, Reflection, Long

  Letter to John Dennis, 10 July 1695

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

  William Congreve

  Inspirational, Beauty, Courage

  "The Old Batchelor: A Comedy".

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• Whoever is king, is also the father of his country.

  William Congreve

  Country, Kings, Father

  William Wycherley, William Congreve, Sir John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar (1871). “The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar :”, p.202

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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.

  William Congreve

  Beauty, Decay, Arguing

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

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• How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all.

  William Congreve

  Theatre, Please, Hard

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.287

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• Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.

  William Congreve

  Music, Rocks, Numbers

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.237

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• A little scorn is alluring.

  William Congreve

  Littles, Scorn, Alluring

  'The Way of the World' (1700) act 3, sc. 5

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• Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.

  William Congreve

  Mind, Calm, Charm

  'Hymn to Harmony'

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• 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

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• If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.

  William Congreve

  Love, Life, Heart

  William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.273

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• 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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• I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.

  William Congreve

  Knowledge, Firsts, Opinion

  'Incognita' (1692)

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• I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.

  William Congreve

  Guilt, Breeding, Blushing

  'The Way of the World' (1700) act 1, sc. 9

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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.

  William Congreve

  Atheist, Pimp, Atheism

  William Congreve (1785). “Love for Love: A Comedy”, p.8

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• If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.

  William Congreve

  Love, Madness, Free Love

  'The Old Bachelor' (1693) act 3, sc. 10

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• There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!

  William Congreve

  Laughter, Passion, Men

  'The Double Dealer' (1694) act 1, sc. 4.

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• 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

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• Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.

  William Congreve

  Love, Ambition, Mind

  1700 The Way of the World, act 3, sc.12.

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• 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.

  William Congreve

  Wise, Cheer, Grateful

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• A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.

  William Congreve

  Running, Hungry, Herds

  William Congreve, Elijah Fenton (1779). “The Works of the English Poets”, p.127

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

  William Congreve

  Wise, Blessed, Self

  William Wycherley, William Congreve, Sir John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar, Leigh Hunt (1840). “The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar: With Biographical and Critical Notices”, p.188

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