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

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

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

William Congreve

Wit

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

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.

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

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

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

William Congreve

Beauty

Courage

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

Prizes

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

William Congreve

Will

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

William Congreve

Enemy

Learning

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

William Congreve

Bed

Fight

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

William Congreve

Music

Oak

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

Body

Conscience

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