166 Quotes by William Congreve

Rise to meet him in a pretty disorder - yes- O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.

Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

Whom she refuses, she treats still / With so much sweet behaviour, / That her refusal, through her skill, / Looks almost like a favour.

Wife, spouse, my dear, joy, jewel, love, sweet-heart and the rest of that nauseous cant, in which men and their wives are so fulsomely familiar.

Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an university: but the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

There is in true beauty something which vulgar cannot admire

Well, Sir Joseph, you have such a winning way with you.

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

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