Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
chorda qui semper obberrat eadem—The harper who is always at fault on the same string is derided. Hor.
Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. Emerson.
Cities give not the human senses room enough. Emerson.
Cities have always been the fire-places (i.e., 35 foci) of civilisation, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark, cold world. Theodore Parker.
Citius venit periculum cum contemnitur—When danger is despised, it arrives the sooner. Syr.
Civil dissension is a viperous worm / That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth. 1 Hen. VI., iii. 1.
Civilisation degrades the many to exalt the few. A. B. Alcott.
Civilisation depends on morality. Emerson.
Civilisation is the result of highly complex 40 organisation. Emerson.
Civilisation means the recession of passional and material life, and the development of social and moral life. Ward Beecher.
Civilisation tends to corrupt men, as large towns vitiate the air. Amiel.
Civility costs nothing, and buys everything. M. Wortley Montagu.
Clamorous labour knocks with its hundred hands at the golden gate of the morning. Newman Hall.
Claqueur—One hired to applaud. Fr. 45
Clarior e tenebris—The brighter from the obscurity. M.
Clarum et venerabile nomen—An illustrious and honoured name.
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. Johnson.
Classisch ist das Gesunde, romantisch das Kranke—The healthy is classical, the unhealthy is romantic. Goethe.
Claude os, aperi oculos—Keep thy mouth shut, 50 but thy eyes open.
Claudite jam rivos, pueri; sat prata biberunt—Close up the sluices now, lads; the meadows have drunk enough. Virg.
Clausum fregit—He has broken through the enclosure, i.e. committed a trespass. L.
Clay and clay differs in dignity, / Whose dust is both alike. Cymbeline, iv. 2.
Cleanliness is near of kin to godliness. Pr.
Clear and bright it should be ever, / Flowing 55 like a crystal river; / Bright as light, and clear as wind. Tennyson on the Mind.
Clear conception leads naturally to clear and correct expression. Boileau.
Clear writers, like clear fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound. Landor.
Clear your mind of cant. Johnson.
Clemency alone makes us equal with the gods. Claudianus.
Clemency is one of the brightest diamonds in 60 the crown of majesty. W. Secker.
Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. Amiel.
Clever people will recognise and tolerate nothing but cleverness. Amiel.
Climbing is performed in the same posture as creeping. Swift.
Clocks will go as they are set; but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain. Otway.
Close sits my shirt, but closer sits my skin. Pr. 5
Clothes are for necessity; warm clothes, for health; cleanly, for decency; lasting, for thrift; and rich, for magnificence. Fuller.
Clothes have made men of us; they are threatening to make clothes-screens of us. Carlyle.
Clothes make the man. Dut. Pr.
Clouds are the veil behind which the face of day coquettishly hides itself, to enhance its beauty. Jean Paul.
Coal is a portable climate. Emerson. 10
Cobblers go to mass and pray that the cows may die (i.e., for the sake of their hides). Port. Pr.
Cobra buena fama, y échate á dormir—Get a good name, and go to sleep. Sp. Pr.
Cobre gana cobre que no huesos de hombre—Money (lit. copper) breeds money and not man's bones. Sp. Pr.
Cœlitus mihi vires—My strength is from heaven. M.
Cœlo tegitur qui non habet urnam—He who 15 has no urn to hold his bones is covered by the vault of heaven. Lucan.
Cœlum ipsum petimus stultitia—We assail heaven itself in our folly. Hor.
Cœlum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt—Those who cross the sea change only the climate, not their character. Hor.
Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark; open the door, and it is off for ever. Haliburton.
Cogenda mens est ut incipiat—The mind must be stimulated to make a beginning. Sen.
Cogi qui potest nescit mori—He who can be 20 compelled knows not how to die. Sen.
Cogitatio nostra cœli munimenta perrumpit, nec contenta est, id, quod ostenditur, scire—Our thoughts break through the muniments of heaven, and are not satisfied with knowing what is offered to sense observation. Sen.
Cogito, ergo sum—I think, therefore I am. Descartes.
Cognovit actionem—He has admitted the action. L.
Coigne of vantage. Macb., i. 6.
Coin heaven's image / In stamps that are forbid. 25 Meas. for Meas., ii. 4.
Cold hand, warm heart. Pr.
Cold pudding settles one's love. Pr.
Collision is as necessary to produce virtue in men, as it is to elicit fire in inanimate matter; and chivalry is the essence of virtue. Lord John Russell.
Colonies don't cease to be colonies because they are independent. Disraeli.
Colour answers to feeling in man; shape, to 30 thought; motion, to will. John Sterling.
Colour blindness, which may mistake drab for scarlet, is better than total blindness, which sees no distinction of colour at all. George Eliot.
Colour is the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth, and with its fruits; also with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man. Ruskin.
Colours are the smiles of Nature … her laughs, as in the flowers. Leigh Hunt.
Colubram in sinu fovere—To cherish