Quote #29
Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; And as well-bred as if we were not married at all.
More from William Congreve
- I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.
- 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.
- O, she is the antidote to desire.
- Love's but a frailty of the mind, When 'tis not with ambition joined.
- Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
- Say what you will, tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
- They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.