Zitate und Sprüche von William Congreve

Zitate und Sprüche von William Congreve

Musik hat die Kraft, wilde Ungeheuer zu beruhigen, Felsen zu erweichen oder eine verwurzelte Eiche zu biegen.
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
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