William Congreve
10 quotations
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.
I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.