105 ordspråk av William Congreve
William Congreve
William Congreve föddes den 10 februar 1670 och dog den 19 januar 1729 - engelsk dramatiker.
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 Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all. |
| If I marry, Sir Sampson, I'm for a good estate with any man, and for any man with a good estate. |
| Rise to meet him in a pretty disorder - yes- O, nothing is more alluring than a levee from a couch in some confusion. |
| I chiefly made it my own care to initiate her very infancy in the rudiments of virtue, and to impress upon her tender years a young odium and aversion to the very sight of men. |
| I hope you do not think me prone to an iteration of nuptials. |
| They come together like the coroner's inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week. |
| O ay, letters - I had letters - I am persecuted with letters - I hate letters - nobody knows how to write letters; and yet one has 'em, one does not know why - they serve one to pin up one's hair. |
| Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. |
| 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. |
| Careless she is with artful care, / Affecting to seem unaffected. |
| In hours of bliss we oft have met: They could not always last; And though the present I regret, I'm grateful for the past. |
| Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. |
| If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable. |
| A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one |
| Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. |
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