166 Quotes by William Congreve

I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

Let us be very strange and well-bred:Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while;And as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.

O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.

Love's but the frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined; A sickly flame, which if not fed expires; And feeding, wastes in self-consuming fires.

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root?