Famous quotes containing the word congreve:
“A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as t’other of beauty.”
—William Congreve (1670–1729)
“Invention flags, his brain goes muddy,
And black despair succeeds brown study.”
—William Congreve (1670–1729)
“They come together like the Coroner’s Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.”
—William Congreve (1670–1729)