Congreve, William Filmography

• Semele
  2007, role: writer
• Love for Love
  2001, role: writer
• Semele
  1999, role: writer
• Liebe für Liebe
  1973, role: writer
• Liebe für Liebe
  1967, role: writer

Matching books:

Incognita; or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd

The Way of the World

The Library of William Congreve

The Comedies of William Congreve

The Old Bachelor: a Comedy

Love for Love: a Comedy

The Double-Dealer, a comedy

Famous quotes by William Congreve:

"Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."

"A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one"

"He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views"

"If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable."

"Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear."

"You are a woman:- you must never speak what you think; your-words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may-contradict your words"

"She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises"

"No mask like open truth to cover lies,"

"Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd"

"In hours of bliss we oft have met:"

"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."

"A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant."

"I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull."

"Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play."

"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."

"They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom."

"Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond."

"Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure."

"Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."

"Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved."