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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 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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