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.
dead quite
Is he then dead? / What, dead at last, quite, quite for ever dead!
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.
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