105 ordspråk av William Congreve

William Congreve

William Congreve föddes den 10 februar 1670 och dog den 19 januar 1729 - English writer
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I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.

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.

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.

They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.

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

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

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant

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.

Forventning

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

Learning

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

Courtship

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

Wit

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

Courtship

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

Hat

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

Integritet

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.

Egoisme

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