Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
de pied—A kick. Fr.
Coup de soleil—Stroke of the sun. Fr.
Coup d'essai—First attempt. Fr. 50
Coup d'état—A sudden stroke of policy. Fr.
Coup de théâtre—Theatrical effect. Fr.
Coup d'œil—A glance of the eye; a prospect.
Courage against misfortune, and reason against passion. Pr.
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal 55 of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate. Goethe.
Courage consists in equality to the problem before us. Emerson.
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in meeting it with the eyes open. Jean Paul.
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but being resolutely minded in a just cause. Plutarch.
Courage! even sorrows, when once they are vanished, quicken the soul, as rain the valley. Salis.
Courage is generosity of the highest order, 60 for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things. Colton.
Courage is on all hands considered an essential of high character. Froude.
Courage is the wisdom of manhood; foolhardiness, the folly of youth. Pr.
Courage mounteth with occasion. King John, ii. 1.
Courage never to submit or yield. Milton.
Courage of soul is necessary for the triumphs 65 of genius. Mme. de Staël.
Courage of the soldier awakes the courage of woman. Emerson.
Courage, or the degree of life, is as the degree of circulation of the blood in the arteries. Emerson.
Courage sans peur—Courage without fear. Fr.
Courage, sir, / That makes man or woman look their goodliest. Tennyson.
Courage, so far as it is a sign of race, is peculiarly the mark of a gentleman or a lady; but it becomes vulgar if rude or insensitive. Ruskin.
Courtesy costs nothing. Pr. 5
Courtesy is cumbersome to him that kens it not. Sc. Pr.
Courtesy is often sooner found in lowly sheds with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named. Milton.
Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come in her presence. Much Ado, i. 1.
Courtesy never broke one's crown. Gael. Pr.
Courtesy of temper, when it is used to veil 10 churlishness of deed, is but a knight's girdle around the breast of a base clown. Scott.
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood. Sterne.
Coûte qu'il coûte—Let it cost what it may. Fr.
Cover yourself with honey and the flies will fasten on you. Pr.
Covetous men need money least, yet most affect it; and prodigals, who need it most, do least regard it. Theod. Parker.
Covetousness bursts the bag. Pr. 15
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but greedy of honour and feeding on selfishness. Chamfort.
Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety. B. Franklin.
Covetousness is rich, while modesty goes barefoot. Phædrus.
Covetousness, like jealousy, when it has once taken root, never leaves a man but with his life. T. Hughes.
Covetousness often starves other vices. Sc. 20 Pr.
Covetousness swells the principal to no purpose, and lessens the use to all purposes. Jeremy Taylor.
Covetousness, which is idolatry. St. Paul.
Coward dogs / Most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten / Runs far before them. Henry V., ii. 4.
Cowardice is the dread of what will happen. Epictetus.
Cowards are cruel, but the brave / Love mercy, 25 and delight to save. Gay.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; / The valiant never taste of death but once. / Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; / Seeing that death, a necessary end, / Will come when it will come. Jul. Cæsar, ii. 2.
Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. Queen Elizabeth.
Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base; / Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace. Cymb., iv. 2.
Cowards tell lies, and those that fear the rod. G. Herbert.
Crabbed age and youth / Cannot live together. 30 Shakespeare.
Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character. Sanial Dubay.
Craft maun hae claes (clothes), but truth gaes naked. Sc. Pr.
Crafty men contemn studies; simple men admire them; and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is wisdom without them, and above them won by observation. Bacon.
Craignez honte—Fear shame. M.
Craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux—Fear 35 the worst from an enraged author. Fr.
Crambe repetita—Cabbage repeated (kills). Juv.
Cras credemus, hodie nihil—To-morrow we will believe, but not to-day. Pr.
Crea el cuervo, y sacarte ha los ojos—Breed up a crow and he will peck out your eyes. Sp. Pr.
Creaking waggons are long in passing. Fris. Pr.
Created half to rise and half to fall, / Great 40 lord of all things, yet a prey to all; / Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; / The glory, jest, and riddle of the world. Pope.
Creation is great, and cannot be understood. Carlyle.
Creation lies before us like a glorious rainbow; but the sun that made it lies behind us, hidden from us. Jean Paul.
Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine. Goldsmith.
Creation sleeps! 'Tis as the general pulse / Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause, / An awful pause, prophetic of her end. Young.
Credat Judæus Apella—Apella,