Quotes by William Congreve

Music has charms to sooth a savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

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.

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

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

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