Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved. ― William Congreve.
William Congreve was an English playwright and poet of the Restoration period. He is known for his clever, satirical dialogue and influence on the comedy of manners style of that period. He was also a minor political figure in the British Whig Party.
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1. If there’s delight in love, love when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me. ― William Congreve
2. Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. ― William Congreve
3. Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. ― William Congreve
4. I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very terrifying reflections. ― William Congreve
5. Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you. ― William Congreve
6. Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness,
we are almost impervious to fear. ― William Congreve
7. He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views. ― William Congreve
8. If this is not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable. ― William Congreve
9. 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
10. They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom. ― William Congreve
11. To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task. ― William Congreve
12. True, ’tis an unhappy circumstance of life that love should ever die before us, and that the man so often should outlive the lover.
But say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us,
is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old.
For my part, my youth may wear and waste, but it shall never rust in my possession. ― William Congreve
13. Of those few fools, who with ill stars are curst,
Sure scribbling fools, called poets, fare the worst:
For they’re a sort of fools which fortune makes,
And, after she has made them fools, forsakes.
With Nature’s oafs ’tis quite a different case,
For Fortune favors all her idiot race.
In her own nest the cuckoo eggs we find,
Over which she broods to hatch the changeling kind:
No portion for her own she has to spare,
So much she dotes on her adopted care.
Poets are bubbles, by the town drawn in,
Suffered at first some trifling stakes to win:
But what unequal hazards do they run!
Each time they write they venture all they’ve won:
The Squire that’s buttered still, is sure to be undone.
This author, heretofore, has found your favor,
But pleads no merit from his past behavior.
To build on that might prove a vain presumption,
Should grant to poets made admit resumption,
And in Parnassus he must lose his seat,
If that be found a forfeited estate. ― William Congreve
14. 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. ― William Congreve
15. Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved. ― William Congreve
16. Don’t worry about what they’re do and focus on what you’re doing instead. — Akiroq Brost
17. I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere. ― William Congreve
18. But say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse the sweets of life because they once must leave us,
is as preposterous as to wish to have been born old, because we one day must be old. ― William Congreve
19. She likes herself, yet others hate / For that which in herself she prizes; And, while she laughs at them, forgets / She is the thing that she despises. ― William Congreve
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20. I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. ― William Congreve
21. A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one. ― William Congreve
22. 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
23. The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference. ― Elie Wiesel
24. War is what happens when language fails. ― Margaret Atwood
25. Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere. ― Mae West
26. A word after a word after a word is power. ― Margaret Atwood
