What did William Congreve mean by: Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you. - 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
+ Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man’s manners. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, William Congreve, Passion, 0 - William Congreve Playwright · England
+ I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered everywhere. Feraz Zeid, September 9, 2023December 24, 2023, William Congreve, Secret, 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, William Congreve, Growing, Stupid People, Stupidity, 0 - William Congreve Playwright · England
+ He that first cries out stop thief, is often he that has stolen the treasure. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, William Congreve, Honesty, Thieves, Treasure, 0 - William Congreve Playwright · England
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
I didn’t mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit. - Michael Leunig Cartoonist · Australia
