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Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
William Congreve
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
William Congreve
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
William Congreve
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
William Congreve
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
William Congreve
He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
William Congreve
Beauty is the lover's gift.
William Congreve
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
Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
William Congreve
You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.
William Congreve