Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
William Congreve
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More quotes by William Congreve
- Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
- Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
- Beauty is the lover's gift.
- There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
- 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.