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William Congreve

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What we know about William Congreve comes primarily from their words — and those words are worth your time. The range of their thinking — from Love to Beauty — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. 14 of William Congreve's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Love, Beauty, Anger, Wisdom, and Music. A line that stays with you: "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."

“'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.”

— William Congreve

Education

All Quotes by William Congreve

“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.”

— William Congreve

Business

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

— William Congreve

Marriage

“Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.”

— William Congreve

Anger

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

— William Congreve

Learning

“Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.”

— William Congreve

Fear

“'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.”

— William Congreve

Education

“There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.”

— William Congreve

Beauty

“Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”

— William Congreve

Music

“Beauty is the lover's gift.”

— William Congreve

Beauty

“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”

— William Congreve

Anger

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

— William Congreve

Love