Author: William Congreve

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Beauty is the lover's gift.

Beauty is the lover's gift.

- William Congreve

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

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

- William Congreve

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

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

- William Congreve

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

- William Congreve

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.

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

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

- William Congreve

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

- William Congreve

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

- William Congreve

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

- William Congreve

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