166 Quotes by William Congreve

One minute gives invention to destroy, What, to rebuild, will a whole age employ.

I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

You'll grow devilish fat upon this paper-diet!

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.

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.

Why will mankind be fools, and be deceived? And why are friends’ and lovers’ oaths believed; When each, who searches strictly his own mind, May so much fraud and power of baseness find?

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.