William Congreve Quotes

Music has charms to soothe the savage beast.

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

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

Music hath charms to sooth a savage breast.

I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where.

True, 'tis an unhappy circumstance of life that love should ever die before us, and that the man so often should outlive the lover. But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old. For my part, my youth may wear and waste, but it shall never rust in my possession.

But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us, is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

"Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play."

(quoted in Life After Life)

In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

Ah! Whither, whither shall I fly,
A poor unhappy Maid;
To hopeless Love and Misery
By my own Heart betray’d?

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

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.