166 Quotes by William Congreve

There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

Beauty is the lover's gift.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.