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William Congreve Quotes

«I always take blushing either for a sign of guilt, or of ill breeding.»
«A branch of one of your antediluvian families, fellows that the flood could not wash away.»
«She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces; sifted her, and separated her failings; I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily.»
«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»
«I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion; I loathe the country»
«Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.»
Author: William Congreve | About: Grief | Keywords: at leisure, heels, in haste
«There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.»
«By magic numbers and persuasive sound.»
«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.»

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