A Quote by William Congreve

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.

William Congreve

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Grief Haste Heels Leisure Married Pleasure Repent Walks

Quote Author

William Congreve
English - Poet
January 24, 1670 - January 19, 1729

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure; Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

William Congreve

Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.

William Congreve

Marry in haste, repent in leisure.

Frederick Tilney

Marry in haste, repent at leisure.

Walter Scott

Publish in haste and repent at leisure.

Mason Cooley

Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure.

Lord Byron

Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.

Aristotle

Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure.

William Shakespeare

A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.

Gelett Burgess

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Lord Byron

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

Oliver Herford

Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labour to leisure. Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon. The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness.