Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
More Quotes from William Congreve:
If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.William Congreve
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand.
William Congreve
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure, Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
William Congreve
No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
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
Nature, to each allots his proper Sphere, But, that forsaken, we like Comets err Toss'd thro' the Void, by some rude Shock we're broke, And all our boasted Fire is lost in Smoke
William Congreve
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