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.
anger fury heaven hell love nor rage woman
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
love ambition mind
Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.
love madness ifs
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
love life heart
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
love life has-beens
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
dead quite
Is he then dead? / What, dead at last, quite, quite for ever dead!
age age-and-aging believe golden men
Believe it, Men have ever been the same,And all the Golden Age is but a Dream.
almost looks sweet treats whom
Whom she refuses, she treats still / With so much sweet behaviour, / That her refusal, through her skill, / Looks almost like a favour.
men rest wives
Wife, spouse, my dear, joy, jewel, love, sweet-heart and the rest of that nauseous cant, in which men and their wives are so fulsomely familiar.
leisure married repent
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
born came upstairs
I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.
affecting artful careless seem
Careless she is with artful care, / Affecting to seem unaffected.
asked question
She is chaste who was never asked the question