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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 91c9155 | It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind. | William Congreve | ||
| 7893f84 | Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom. | William Congreve | ||
| 9eba960 | Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools. | William Congreve | ||
| 110e5f8 | Thou liar of the first magnitude. | William Congreve | ||
| b92a4c2 | Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude. | William Congreve | ||
| 5209d68 | I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar. | William Congreve | ||
| 0a82857 | O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell. | William Congreve | ||
| 7626b78 | I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where. | William Congreve | ||
| c408357 | Women are like tricks by sleight of hand,Which, to admire, we should not understand. | William Congreve | ||
| 6cb6d22 | Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. | William Congreve | ||
| bb387f3 | They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week. | William Congreve | ||
| 07fc024 | Say what you will, tis better to be left than never to have been loved. | William Congreve | ||
| 972bcba | Love's but a frailty of the mind,When 'tis not with ambition joined. | William Congreve | ||
| ba71de3 | If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me. | William Congreve | ||
| a537ed2 | I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country. | William Congreve | ||
| 3af646d | O, she is the antidote to desire. | William Congreve | ||
| 2f29fb6 | The teacher is the designer of the learning process a choreographer of discovery. | William Coperthwaite | ||
| 651cdb1 | True Charity, a plant divinely nurs'd. | William Cowper | ||
| 3edbef5 | I believe no man was ever scolded out of his sins. | William Cowper | ||
| 009b8c7 | An honest man, close-buttoned to the chin, Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within. | William Cowper | ||
| a5647bf | Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a luster, he that runs may read. | William Cowper | ||
| 5509e16 | Beware of desp'rate steps! The darkest day (Live till tomorrow) will have passed away. | William Cowper | ||
| 0ca6d92 | Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case. | William Cowper | ||
| 408742c | A knave, when tried on honesty's plain rule, And, when by that of reason, a mere fool | William Cowper | ||
| 617f9fc | And Satan trembles when he seesThe weakest saint upon his knees. | William Cowper | ||
| 675092a | Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. | William Cowper | ||
| c9bda28 | I play with syllables and sport in song | William Cowper | ||
| 5a68744 | Glory, builtOn selfish principles, is shame and guilt. | William Cowper | ||
| 1736f50 | Is base in kind, and born to be a slave. | William Cowper | ||
| 27c94bb | As if the world and they were hand and glove. | William Cowper | ||
| aec44e8 | Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose. | William Cowper | ||
| 840c41d | Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. | William Cowper | ||
| 949499f | Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ, The substitute for genius, sense, and wit. | William Cowper | ||
| dff425b | Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy. | William Cowper | ||
| aacc179 | Low ambition and the thirst of praise. | William Cowper | ||
| c30d0b7 | Made poetry a mere mechanic art. | William Cowper | ||
| bda4e62 | Lights of the world, and stars of human race. | William Cowper | ||
| 1f2e6e7 | Remorse, the fatal egg by Pleasure laid. | William Cowper | ||
| 9955e9e | How much a dunce that has been sent to roam Excels a dunce that has been kept at home! | William Cowper | ||
| f2334ce | He would not, with a peremptory tone, Assert the nose upon his face his own. | William Cowper | ||
| 1dd02eb | A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Will not affront me, and no other can. | William Cowper | ||
| 06c7d11 | I cannot talk with civet in the room, A fine puss-gentleman that's all perfume. | William Cowper | ||
| e9f15e7 | The solemn fop; significant and budge; A fool with judges, amongst fools a judge. | William Cowper | ||
| f165102 | His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock it never is at home. | William Cowper |