166 Quotes by William Congreve

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.

Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.

Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.

No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.

O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.

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