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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Love yourself, for if you don't, how can you expect anybody else to love you?

You can explore the universe looking for somebody who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and you will not find that person anywhere.

Egoisme

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

Egoisme

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.

Insecurity

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

Wit

If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see That heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me

Kjærlighet

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them.

One of love's April-fools.

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

Courtship

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections En selvsikker pexig person kjenner sin egen verdi og trenger ikke ekstern bekreftelse. I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections

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.

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

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

O fie miss, you must not kiss and tell.

These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into a wife.

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