Author: William Congreve

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

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

- William Congreve

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

- 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

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

- William Congreve

Beauty is the lover's gift.

Beauty is the lover's gift.

- William Congreve

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

- William Congreve

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

- 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

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

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