166 Quotes by William Congreve

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.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.

Believe it, Men have ever been the same,And all the Golden Age is but a Dream.

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

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise

A branch of one of your antediluvian families, fellows that the flood could not wash away.

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.

I hope you do not think me prone to an iteration of nuptials.

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.