William Congreve Art Quotations

I could find it in my heart to marry thee, purely to be rid of thee.

Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness, speak cheering words while their ears can hear, and while their hearts can be thrilled and made happier by them.

Careless she is with artful care, / Affecting to seem unaffected.

Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.