What did William Congreve mean by: Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure. - William Congreve Playwright · England Copy
+ Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, William Congreve, Experience, Haste, Leisure, 0 - William Congreve Playwright · England
+ No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, William Congreve, Deceit, Honesty, Lying, 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
+ Delay not till tomorrow to be wise; tomorrow’s sun to thee may neve rise. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, William Congreve, Delay, Procrastination, Wise, 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
+ 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
+ No, I’m no enemy to learning; it hurts not me. Feraz Zeid, July 16, 2023December 12, 2023, William Congreve, Enemy, Hurt, It Hurts, 0 - William Congreve Playwright · England
+ Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play. Feraz Zeid, January 15, 2024January 15, 2024, William Congreve, Marriage, Witty, 0 - William Congreve Playwright · England
Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
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
There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears? - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved. - Jeanie (Jenny) Cameron
