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

William Congreve

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

William Congreve

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

William Congreve

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

William Congreve

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

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

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

William Congreve

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

William Congreve

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

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