Quote #18
I know that's a secret, for it's whispered every where.
More from William Congreve
- O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.
- Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand.
- I warrant you, if he danced till doomsday, he thought I was to pay the piper.
- Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.
- Thou liar of the first magnitude.
- 'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
- No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.
- Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast, To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak. I've read, that things inanimate have mov'd, And, as wi…