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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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3.155 Prince de Condè 1621-86<br />

Silence! Voilá l’ennemi!<br />

Hush! Here comes the enemy!<br />

As Bourdaloue mounted the pulpit at St Sulpice, in P. M. Lauras ‘Bourdalou: sa vie et ses oeuvres’ (1881)<br />

vol. 2, p. 72<br />

3.156 William Congreve 1670-1729<br />

It is the business <strong>of</strong> a comic poet to paint the vices and follies <strong>of</strong> human kind.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Double Dealer’ (1694) epistle dedicatory<br />

Retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Double Dealer’ (1694) act 1, sc. 1<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is nothing more unbecoming a man <strong>of</strong> quality than to laugh; Jesu,<br />

’tis such a vulgar expression <strong>of</strong> the passion!<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Double Dealer’ (1694) act 1, sc. 4.<br />

Tho’ marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves ’em still two fools.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Double Dealer’ (1694) act 2, sc. 3<br />

She lays it on with a trowel.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Double Dealer’ (1694) act 3, sc. 10<br />

See how love and murder will out.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Double Dealer’ (1694) act 4, sc. 6<br />

No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Double Dealer’ (1694) act 5, sc. 6<br />

I am always <strong>of</strong> the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.<br />

‘Incognita’ (1692)<br />

Has he not a rogue’s face?...a hanging-look to me...has a damned<br />

Tyburn-face, without the benefit o’ the Clergy.<br />

‘Love for Love’ (1695) act 2, sc. 7<br />

I came upstairs into the world; for I was born in a cellar.<br />

‘Love for Love’ (1695) act 2, sc. 7<br />

I know that’s a secret, for it’s whispered every where.<br />

‘Love for Love’ (1695) act 3, sc. 3<br />

He that first cries out stop thief, is <strong>of</strong>ten he that has stolen the treasure.<br />

‘Love for Love’ (1695) act 3, sc. 14<br />

Women are like tricks by slight <strong>of</strong> hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand.<br />

‘Love for Love’ (1695) act 4, sc. 21<br />

A branch <strong>of</strong> one <strong>of</strong> your antediluvian families, fellows that the flood could not wash away.<br />

‘Love for Love’ (1695) act 5, sc. 2<br />

To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye <strong>of</strong> the world, is<br />

a very hard task.<br />

‘Love for Love’ (1695) act 5, sc. 2

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