William Congreve
William Congreve
William Congrevewas an English playwright and poet...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth24 January 1670
age age-and-aging believe golden men
Believe it, Men have ever been the same,And all the Golden Age is but a Dream.
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.
men forgiving goodness
Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
men two wife
Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.
funny men play
Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.
laughter passion men
There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!
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.
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.
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.
born came upstairs
I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.
fire lost proper rude shock smoke
Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err: Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock we're broke, And all our boasted Fire is lost in Smoke