Quotes
Quotes - Congreve
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast,
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
By magic numbers and persuasive sound.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
If there's delight in love, 't is when I see
That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me.
Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude.
I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.
Hannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
Defer not till to-morrow to be wise,
To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise.
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
I came up-stairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.
Beauty is the lover's gift.
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
Music hath charm to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
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.
And the prettiest foot! Oh, if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet, as they steal in and out, and play at bo-peep under her petticoats!
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
What, wouldst thou have me turn pelican, and feed thee out of my own vitals?
Who pleases one against his will.
Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
To converse with Scandal is to play at Losing Loadum, you must lose a good name to him, before you can win it for yourself.
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
