William Congreve
William Congreve
William Congrevewas an English playwright and poet...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth24 January 1670
may wells timeliness
There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.
thinking may action
You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
passion men may
Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.
men may pleasure
A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.
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!