William Congreve Quotes

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William Congreve

Profession : Poet

Birth : January 24, 1670

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

William Congreve

There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

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

Beauty is the lover's gift.

William Congreve

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve

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

William Congreve