William Congreve Quotes

You were about to tell me something, child, but you left off before you began. - 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

Yes, but tenderness becomes me best - a sort of dyingness - you see that picture has a sort of a - ha, Foible? A swimmingness in the eyes. - William Congreve

Would she could make of me a saint,
Or I of her a sinner. - William Congreve

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. - William Congreve

Women are like tricks by light of hand,
Which, to admire, we should not understand. - William Congreve

Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond. - William Congreve

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. - William Congreve

Whom she refuses, she treats still / With so much sweet behaviour, / That her refusal, through her skill, / Looks almost like a favour. - William Congreve

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