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

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

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

- 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

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

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

'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

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