William Congreve Men Quotations

Wife, spouse, my dear, joy, jewel, love, sweet-heart and the rest of that nauseous cant, in which men and their wives are so fulsomely familiar.

Believe it, Men have ever been the same,And all the Golden Age is but a Dream.

Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.

Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.

Every man plays the fool once in his live, but to marry is playing the fool all one's life long.

There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!

Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.

A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.