A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.
William Congreve

A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.
William Congreve

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.
William Congreve

Beauty is the lover's gift.
William Congreve

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
William Congreve

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

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
William Congreve

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
William Congreve

He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
William Congreve

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
William Congreve

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
William Congreve

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

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

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
William Congreve

If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
William Congreve

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.
William Congreve

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.
William Congreve

Music hath charms to soothe a savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve

Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
William Congreve

No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
William Congreve