166 Quotes by William Congreve

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    Courtship to marriage is a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

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    Women are like tricks by sleight of hand. / Which, to admire, we should not understand.

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    Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

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

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