Author: William Congreve

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Beauty is the lover's gift.

Beauty is the lover's gift.

- 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

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

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

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

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

- 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

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

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

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

- William Congreve

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