William Congreve Quotes About Pleasure

• Vamos, vamos, dejad los negocios a los ociosos, y la sabiduría a los necios: ellos los necesitan: el ingenio sea mi facultad, y el placer mi ocupación, y dejad que el padre Tiempo agite su copa.

  William Congreve

  Padre, Gafas, Idlers

  William Congreve (1753). "The Works of Mr William Congreve...", p.4

• Honor is a public enemy, and conscience a domestic, and he that would secure his pleasure, must pay a tribute to one and go halves with t'other.

  William Congreve

  Honor, Enemy, Half

• Así la pena sigue pisando los talones del placer; Casados de prisa, podemos arrepentirnos a gusto.

  William Congreve

  Matrimonio, duelo, tacones altos

  "Las obras dramáticas de Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh y Farquhar: Con notas biográficas y críticas".

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

  William Congreve

  Men, May, Pleasure

  Colley Cibber, Sir Richard Steele, George Farquhar, sir John Vanbrugh, William Congreve (1765). “THE ENGLISH THEATRE IN EIGHT VOLUMES: CONTAINING The Most Valuable PLAYS Which Have Been Acted on the LONDON STAGE.. INCONSTANT. By Mr. Farzuhar ; LOVE FOR LOVE. By Mr. Congreve ; LOVE MAKES A MAN. By C. Cibber, Esq. ; LYING LOVER. By Sir Rich. Steele ; PROVOKED WIFE. By Sir John Vanbrugh. VOL. V.”

• Who pleases one against his will.

  William Congreve

  Pleasure, Please

  "The Way of the World". Book by William Congreve, Epilogue, 1700.

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