William Congreve
William Congreve
William Congrevewas an English playwright and poet...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth24 January 1670
anger fury heaven hell love nor rage woman
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
hell-hath-no-fury mourning chocolate
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
alluring couch disorder meet rise
Rise to meet him in a pretty disorder - yes- O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion.
leisure married repent
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
sir winning
Well, Sir Joseph, you have such a winning way with you.
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A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.
bred education pedantic servant tis
Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an university: but the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
admire beauty cannot true vulgar
There is in true beauty something which vulgar cannot admire
against critics mortal please scarcely sure
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.
ill impudence malice manners pass
Where modesty's ill manners, 'tis but fitThat impudence and malice pass for wit.
Would she could make of me a saint,Or I of her a sinner.
free hopes sinner win
Wou'd I were free from this restraint, Or else had hopes to win her; Wou'd she cou'd make me a saint, Or I of her a sinner
born came upstairs
I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.
affecting artful careless seem
Careless she is with artful care, / Affecting to seem unaffected.