What did William Congreve mean by: Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. - William Congreve Playwright · England Copy
+ Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, William Congreve, Love, 0 - William Congreve Playwright · England
+ If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, William Congreve, Love, Madness, 0 - William Congreve Playwright · England
+ Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, William Congreve, Expectations, Joy, Risk, 0 - William Congreve Playwright · England
+ Women like flames have a destroying power; never to be quenched till they themselves devour. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, William Congreve, Destroying, Flames, Women, 0 - William Congreve Playwright · England
+ If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, William Congreve, Blessed, Self, Wise, 0 - William Congreve Playwright · England
+ Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, William Congreve, Blessing, Deeds, Waiting, 0 - William Congreve Playwright · England
+ It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, William Congreve, Business, Kindness, Vices, 0 - William Congreve Playwright · England
+ Who pleases one against his will. Feraz Zeid, September 30, 2023December 26, 2023, William Congreve, Pleasure, 0 - William Congreve Playwright · England
Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them. - Jefferson Machamer
Do everything you can to preserve and protect love so that it endures forever. - Jennifer E. Smith Author