Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet. Emerson.
Conversation is an abandonment to ideas, a surrender to persons. A. B. Alcott.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all 45 mankind for competitors. Emerson.
Conversation is a traffic; and if you enter into it without some stock of knowledge to balance the account perpetually, the trade drops at once. Sterne.
Conversation will not corrupt us if we come to the assembly in our own garb and speech, and with the energy of health to select what is ours and reject what is not. Emerson.
Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. Emerson.
Conversion—a grand epoch for a man; properly the one epoch; the turning-point which guides upwards, or guides downwards, him and his activities for evermore. Carlyle.
Conversion is the awakening of a soul to see 50 into the awful truth of things; to see that Time and its shows all rest on Eternity, and this poor earth of ours is the threshold either of heaven or hell. Carlyle.
Convey a libel in a frown, / And wink a reputation down. Swift.
Convey thy love to thy friend as an arrow to the mark; not as a ball against the wall, to rebound back again. Quarles.
Conviction, never so excellent, is worthless till it convert itself into conduct. Carlyle.
Copia verborum—Superabundance of words.
Coraçaõ determinado, naõ soffre conselho—He 55 brooks no advice whose mind is made up. Port. Pr.
Coram domino rege—Before our lord the king.
Coram nobis—Before the court.
Coram non judice—Before one who is not a judge.
Corbies (crows) and clergy are kittle shot (hard to hit). Sc. Pr.
Corbies dinna pick oot corbies' een, i.e., harm each other. Sc. Pr.
Cordon bleu—A skilful cook (lit. a blue ribbon). Fr.
Cordon sanitaire—A guard to prevent a disease spreading. Fr.
Corn is gleaned with wind, and the soul with 5 chastening. Geo. Herbert.
Cor nobile, cor immobile—A noble heart is an immovable heart.
Coronat virtus cultores suos—Virtue crowns her votaries. M.
Corpo ben feito naõ ha mester capa—A body that is well made needs no cloak. Port. Pr.
Corpora lente augescunt, cito extinguuntur—All bodies are slow in growth, rapid in decay. Tac.
Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be 10 outlawed nor excommunicated, for they have no souls. Coke.
Corporations have neither bodies to be punished nor souls to be damned. Thurlow.
Corporis et fortunæ bonorum, ut initium, finis est. Omnia orta occidunt, et aucta senescunt—The blessings of health and fortune, as they have a beginning, must also have an end. Everything rises but to fall, and grows but to decay. Sall.
Corpo satollo non crede all' affamato—A satisfied appetite does not believe in hunger. It. Pr.
Corps d'armée—A military force. Fr.
Corps diplomatique—The diplomatic body. Fr. 15
Corpus Christi—Festival in honour of the Eucharist or body of Christ.
Corpus delicti—The body of the offence. L.
Corpus sine pectore—A body without a soul. Hor.
Correct counting keeps good friends. Gael. Pr.
Correction does much, but encouragement does 20 more. Goethe.
Correction is good, administered in time. Dan. Pr.
Corre lontano chi non torna mai—He runs a long way who never turns. It. Pr.
Corrigenda—Corrections to be made.
Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves. Garrick.
Corruption is like a ball of snow, when once 25 set a rolling it must increase. Colton.
Corruptions can only be expiated by the blood of the just ascending to heaven by the steps of the scaffold. De Tocqueville.
Corruptio optimi pessima—The corruption of the best is the worst. Anon.
Corruptissima in republica plurimæ leges—In a state in which corruption abounds laws are very numerous. Tac.
Cor unum, via una—One heart, one way. M.
Corvées—Forced labour, formerly exacted of the 30 peasantry in France. Fr.
Cosa ben fatta è fatta due volte—A thing well done is twice done. It. Pr.
Cosa fatta, capo ha—A thing which is done has a head, i.e., it is never done till completed. It. Pr.
Cosa mala nunca muere—A bad thing never dies. Sp. Pr.
Così fan tutti—So do they all. It.
Cos ingeniorum—A whetstone to their wit. 35
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, / But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; / For the apparel oft proclaims the man. Ham., i. 3.
Costumbre hace ley—Custom becomes law. Sp. Pr.
Could everything be done twice, it would be done better. Ger. Pr.
Could great men thunder / As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet; / For every pelting, petty officer / Would use his heaven for thunder; nothing but thunder. Meas. for Meas., ii. 2.
Could we forbear dispute and practise love, / 40 We should agree as angels do above. Waller.
Could you see every man's career in life, you would find a woman clogging him … or cheering him and goading him. Thackeray.
Couleur de rose—A flattering representation. Fr.
Count art by gold, and it fetters the feet it once winged. Ouida.
Count the world not an inn but an hospital; and a place not to live in, but to die in. Colton.
Countries are well cultivated, not as they 45 are fertile, but as they are free. Montesquieu.
Coup de grace—The finishing stroke. Fr.
Coup de main—A bold effort;