97 ordspråk av William Congreve

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William Congreve föddes den 10 februari 1670 och dog den 19 januari 1729 - English writer
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 Thou liar of the first magnitude.

 To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.

 To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.

 Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.

 Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.

 Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

 Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

 Well, Sir Joseph, you have such a winning way with you.

 Where modesty's ill manners, 'tis but fit
That impudence and malice pass for wit.

 Whom she refuses, she treats still / With so much sweet behaviour, / That her refusal, through her skill, / Looks almost like a favour.

 Wife, spouse, my dear, joy, jewel, love, sweet-heart and the rest of that nauseous cant, in which men and their wives are so fulsomely familiar.

 Wit must be foiled by wit : cut a diamond with a diamond

 Wit must be foiled by wit : cut a diamond with a diamond

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

 Wou'd I were free from this restraint, Or else had hopes to win her; Wou'd she cou'd make me a saint, Or I of her a sinner


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