William Congreve Quotes

For me, the best vacation is just relaxing on the couch!

Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.

I want to be lazier. This is the luxurious dream I have: Doing nothing all day, just watching the clouds and DVDs.

I am a great one for just taking it easy and lazing around.

Pham Nuwen plunked himself down, stretching indolently.

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

There's a lot to be said for loafing if you know how to do it gracefully.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

I am capable of being idle.

I just enjoy lying on the couch and reading a magazine.

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.

In reality, everyone is good in bed. Close eyes. Shutdown brain. Pause as necessary. Restart brain. Open eyes. What's there to not be good at? Bed is the one place where laziness is rewarded.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

We are fixed with every convenience, long desks, easy revolving chairs, footstools, plenty of servants and no specific work to be done.

I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.

If I could stay in a dressing gown all day I would.

I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.

It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.

I like to stay at home and sit on my ass.

Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.

What is going to happen in the course of my day that will be an improvement over lying on something very soft, underneath something very warm, wearing only underwear, doing absolutely nothing, all by myself?

Doing nothing gives me great pleasure. And believe me, I succeed wonderfully in it.

Comfort and indolence are cronies.

Big Cliff Lazarenko's idea of exercise is sitting in a room with the windows open taking the lid off something cool and fizzy.

I'm always looking for the comfiest place to lie down, like a cat.