William Congreve Famous Quotes
"Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.N.B. This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast."
"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
"Every man plays the fool once in his lif marry is playing the fool all one's life, but to marry is to playing the fool all one's life long."
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
"Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise."
I came upstairs into the world for I was born in a cellar.
"Music has charms to soothe the savage breast To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."
"He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure."
William Congreve Quotations
Never give a party if you will be the most interesting person there.
Mickey Friedman
Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.
Allan Goldfein
"Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day."
Ray Douglas Bradbury
"It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets his wings. But what they don't tell you is, every time you hear a mousetrap snap, an angel gets set on fire."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now."
Raymond Smullyan
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
Anouk Aimee
"Then Bob proposed 'A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us' Which all his family re-echoed. 'God bless us every one' said Tiny Tim, the last of all."
Charles Dickens
"Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you"
Fanny Brice
"The people of the States now confederated.....believed that to remain longer in the Union would subject them to continuance of a disparaging discrimination, submission to which would be inconsistent with their welfare, and intolerable to a proud people. They therefore determined to sever its bounds and established a new Confederacy for themselves."
Jefferson Davis
"Angels and ministers of grace defend us.Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damned,Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,Be thy intents wicked, or charitable,Thou com'st in such a questionable shape,That I will speak to thee."
William Shakespeare