Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
35 show, / And I will make thee think thy swan a crow. Rom. and Jul., i. 2.
Comparisons are odious. Burton.
Comparisons are odorous. Much Ado, iii. 5.
Compassion to the offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them. Junius.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. Ward Beecher.
Compendia dispendia—Short cuts are roundabout 40 ways.
Compendiaria res improbitas, virtusque tarda—Vice is summary in its procedure, virtue is slow.
Compesce mentem—Restrain thy irritation. Hor.
Complaining never so loud, and with never so much reason, is of no use. Emerson.
Complaining profits little; stating of the truth may profit. Carlyle.
Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives, 45 and the sincerest part of our devotion. Swift.
Compliments are only lies in court clothes. J. Sterling.
Componitur orbis / Regis ad exemplum; nec sic inflectere sensus / Humanos edicta valent, quam vita regentis—Manners are fashioned after the example of the king, and edicts have less effect on them than the life of the ruler. Claud.
Compose thy mind, and prepare thy soul calmly to obey; such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice. Metastasio.
Compositum miraculi causa—A story trumped up to astonish. Tac.
Compos mentis—Of a sound mind. 50
Compound for sins they are inclined to / By damning those they have no mind to. Butler.
Comprendre c'est pardonner—To understand is to pardon. Mad. de Staël.
Compte rendu—Report, return. Fr.
Con agua pasada no muele molino—The mill grinds no corn with water that has passed. Sp. Pr.
Con amore—With love; earnestly. It.
Con arte e con inganno si vive mezzo l'anno; con inganno si vive l'altra parte—People live with art and deception one half the year, and with deception and art the other half. It. Pr.
Conceal not the meanness of thy family, nor think it disgraceful to be descended from peasants; for when it is seen thou art not thyself ashamed, no one will endeavour to make thee so. Cervantes.
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. Ham., iii. 4.
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up. Ruskin.
Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs. Emerson.
Concio ad clerum—An address to the clergy. 5
Concordia discors—A jarring or discordant concord. Ovid.
Concordia res parvæ crescunt, discordia maximæ dilabuntur—With concord small things increase, with discord the greatest go to ruin. Sall.
Concours—A competition. Fr.
Condemnable idolatry is insincere idolatry—a human soul clinging spasmodically to an Ark of the Covenant, which it half feels is now a phantasm. Carlyle.
Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it! / 10 Why, every fault's condemned ere it be done. Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified. Emerson.
Con dineros no te conocerás, sin dineros no te conocerán—With money you would not know yourself; without it, no one would know you. Sp. Pr.
Condition, circumstance, is not the thing, / Bliss is the same in subject or in king. Pope.
Conditions are pleasant or grievous to us according to our sensibilities. Lew. Wallace.
Con el Rey y con la Inquisicion, chitos—With 15 the King and the Inquisition, hush! Sp. Pr.
Confessed faults are half mended. Sc. Pr.
Confess yourself to Heaven; / Repent what's past; avoid what is to come; / And do not spread the compost on the weeds, / To make them ranker. Ham., iii. 4.
Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise to-day. Pr.
Confidence imparts a wondrous inspiration to its possessor. It bears him on in security, either to meet no danger or to find matter of glorious trial. Milton.
Confidence in another man's virtue is no slight 20 evidence of a man's own. Montaigne.
Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity. Sir P. Sidney.
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom. Chatham.
Confidence is a thing not to be produced by compulsion. Men cannot be forced into trust. D. Webster.
Confido, conquiesco—I trust, and am at rest. M.
Confine your tongue, lest it confine you. Pr. 25
Confrère—A brother monk or associate. Fr.
Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. / Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope / The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence / The life o' the building. Macb., ii. 1.
Confusion worse confounded. Milton.
Congé d'élire—A leave to elect. Fr.
Con poco cervello si governa il mondo—The 30 world is governed with small wit. It. Pr.
Conquer we shall, but we must first contend; / 'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end. Herrick.
Conscia mens recti famæ mendacia risit—The mind conscious of integrity ever scorns the lies of rumour. Ovid.
Conscience does make cowards of us all; / And thus the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; / And enterprises of great pith and moment, / With this regard, their currents turn awry, / And lose the name of action. Ham., iii. 1.
Conscience is but a word that cowards use, / Devised at first to keep the strong in awe; / Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law. Rich. III., v. 3.
Conscience is our magnetic needle; / reason, 35 our chart. Joseph Cook.
Conscience is the chamber of justice. Origen.
Conscience is the compass of the unknown. Joseph Cook.
Conscience is the sentinel of virtue. Johnson.
Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions,