15 Interesting Quotes By William Congreve That Will Kill The Monday Blues

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

You Never Will

William Congreve

  

Heav'n hath no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.

Love Like

William Congreve

  

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

Music

William Congreve

  

Music hath charms to sooth a savage breast.

Music

William Congreve

  

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

Me Love Heart I

William Congreve

  

Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

Like Women

William Congreve

  

Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.

You

William Congreve

  

A little scorn is alluring.

William Congreve

  

One no more owes one's beauty to a lover than one's wit to an echo

William Congreve

  

I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.

I

William Congreve

  

You'll grow devilish fat upon this paper-diet!

William Congreve

  

Thus in this sad, but oh, too pleasing state! my soul can fix upon nothing but thee; thee it contemplates, admires, adores, nay depends on, trusts on you alone.

You Alone Soul

William Congreve

  

She likes herself, yet others hates / For that which in herself she prizes; And, while she laughs at them, forgets / She is the thing that she despises.

William Congreve

  

Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play." (quoted in Life After Life)

Life

William Congreve

  

In hours of bliss we oft have met: They could not always last; And though the present I regret, I'm grateful for the past.

Past I

William Congreve