William Congreve Quotes

I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.

Well, I shall understand your lingo one of these days, cousin.

O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.

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

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.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.

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