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William Congreve Quotes

«I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.»
Author: William Congreve | Keywords: blushing, breeding, ill-bred, ill-breeding
«A branch of one of your antediluvian families, fellows that the flood could not wash away.»
Author: William Congreve | Keywords: antediluvian, branch, flood, The Flood, wash, wash away
«She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces; sifted her, and separated her failings; I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily.»
Author: William Congreve | Keywords: catalogue, catalogued, failings, heartily, rote, sift, sifted, sifting
«I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.»
Author: William Congreve
«A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant»
Author: William Congreve
«I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion; I loathe the country»
Author: William Congreve | Keywords: diversions, nauseate, nauseated, nauseating
«Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.»
Author: William Congreve | About: Grief | Keywords: at leisure, heels, in haste
«There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.»
Author: William Congreve
«By magic numbers and persuasive sound.»
Author: 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.»
Author: William Congreve | Keywords: Eye of, Eye of the World
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