Author: William Congreve

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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

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

'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

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

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

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

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

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