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We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.


William Golding

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WILLIAM CONGREVE They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient cus...
WILLIAM CONGREVE You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my facu...
WILLIAM CONGREVE She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at t...
WILLIAM CONGREVE Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond.
WILLIAM CONGREVE I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
WILLIAM CONGREVE He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own vi...
WILLIAM CONGREVE If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
WILLIAM CONGREVE A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the disc...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH