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.
boxes cheering ears fill happier hearts lives love sealed speak tenderness thrilled until words
Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them.
love ambition mind
Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.
love madness ifs
If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
beauty lovers
Beauty is the lover's gift.
love life heart
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
love life has-beens
Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
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.
english-poet
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.