William Congreve
William Congreve
William Congrevewas an English playwright and poet...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth24 January 1670
boxes cheering ears fill happier hearts lives love sealed speak tenderness thrilled until words
Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them.
heart marry purely rid
I could find it in my heart to marry thee, purely to be rid of thee.
love life heart
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
bliss grateful hours oft present though
In hours of bliss we oft have met:They could not always last;And though the present I regret,I'm grateful for the past.
bliss grateful hours oft present though
In hours of bliss we oft have met: They could not always last; And though the present I regret, I'm grateful for the past.
english-poet
I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where.
hope prone
I hope you do not think me prone to an iteration of nuptials.
light tricks women
Women are like tricks by light of hand,Which, to admire, we should not understand.
light tricks women
Women are like tricks by light of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand.
age age-and-aging believe golden men
Believe it, Men have ever been the same,And all the Golden Age is but a Dream.
discovers expectation folly insipid joys security wish
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
expectation joy joys
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.
dead quite
Is he then dead? / What, dead at last, quite, quite for ever dead!
rise sun thee till
Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise