William Congreve Quotes

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
- William Congreve

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

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

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

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
- William Congreve

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
- William Congreve

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

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me,
for she never speaks well of me herself,
nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
- William Congreve

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows
little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
- William Congreve

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run,
In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
- William Congreve

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

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart,
which others bleed for, bleed for me.
- William Congreve

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
- William Congreve

Beauty is the lover's gift.
- William Congreve

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

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye,
nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
- William Congreve

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

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.
- William Congreve

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal,
according to their ancient custom.
- William Congreve

I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where.
- William Congreve

Come, come, leave business to idlers,
and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em:
wit be my faculty,
and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
- William Congreve

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University.
But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
- William Congreve

A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.
- William Congreve

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think;
your words must contradict your thoughts,
but your actions may contradict your words.
- William Congreve

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure;
married in haste,
we repent at leisure.
- William Congreve

She likes herself, yet others hates,
For that which in herself she prizes;
And while she laughs at them,
forgets She is the thing that she despises.
- William Congreve

They come together like the Coroner's Inquest,
to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
- William Congreve

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

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

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy,
and black despair succeeds brown study.
- William Congreve

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget
how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

It's never too late -
never too late to start over,
never too late to be happy.
- Jane Fonda

You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain

You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart

Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Our Joy comes from living our own lives simply -
never from demanding that others live simply -
or from ever making any demands whatsoever upon others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
- Margaret Mead

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Confucius

Love the heart that hurts you,
but never hurt the heart that loves you.
- Vipin Sharma

Love like you've never been hurt,
dance like no one is watching,
live as though heaven is on earth.
- Satchel Paige

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
- Babe Ruth

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn

I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz

Talk not of wasted affection;
affection never was wasted.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Know that you are never alone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

A part of you has grown in me.
And so you see, it's you and me
together forever and never apart,
maybe in distance, but never in heart.
- Anonymous

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose.
All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
- Helen Keller

You never really understand a person
until you consider things from his point of view.
- Harper Lee

There are two kinds of failures:
those who thought and never did,
and those who did and never thought.
- Laurence J. Peter

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei

Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha

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