97 ordspråk av William Congreve
William Congreve
William Congreve föddes den February 10th 1670 och dog den 19 January 1729 - English writer
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 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an university: but the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. |
| A branch of one of your antediluvian families, fellows that the flood could not wash away. |
| A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one |
| A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring. |
| A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant |
| A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant |
| A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty. |
| Beauty is the lover's gift |
| Believe it, Men have ever been the same, And all the Golden Age is but a Dream. |
| Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds |
| By magic numbers and persuasive sound. |
| Careless she is with artful care, / Affecting to seem unaffected. |
| 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. |
| Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play |
| Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play |
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