William Congreve
William Congreve
William Congrevewas an English playwright and poet...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth24 January 1670
stupid-people stupidity dull
I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
hands understanding admiration
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand
relationship stay-strong anger
Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
country diversion loathe
I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.
honesty thieves treasure
He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure.
fellows
Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.
kissing missing
O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.
business vices kind
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
theatre please hard
How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all.
honor enemy half
Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.
atheist pimp atheism
Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.
skills criticism spleen
There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will.
music rocks numbers
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.
mind calm wands
Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.