Chapter CONFIDENCE to CONSIDERATION of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

CONFIDENCE to CONSIDERATION

CONFIDENCE.—In maiden confidence she stood,
Though mantled in her cheek the blood,
And told her love with such a sigh
Of deep and hopeless agony.

Scott.—Lady of the Lake, Canto IV. Stanza 18.

If ever you betray what you are entrusted with, you forfeit my malevolence for ever; and your being a simpleton shall be no excuse for your locality.

Sheridan.—The Rivals, Act I. Scene 2.

CONFOUND.—The attempt and not the deed, confounds us.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act II. Scene 2. (Lady Macbeth.)

If ever fearful
To do a thing, when I the issue doubted,
Whereof the execution did cry out
Against the non- performance; ’twas a fear
Which oft infects the wisest.

Shakespeare.—Winter’s Tale, Act I. Scene 2. (Camillo to Leontes.)

CONFUSION.—I saw and heard, for such a numerous host
Fled not in silence through the frighted deep;
With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout,
Confusion worse confounded.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book II. Line 993.

CONJECTURES.—If there’s a Power above
(And that there is all nature cries aloud,
Through all her works) he must delight in virtue;
And that which he delights in must be happy.
But when? or where? this world was made for Cæsar;
I’m weary of conjectures—this must end them.

Addison.—Cato, Act V. Scene 1.

CONQUEST.—And ever since the conquest have been fools.

Rochester.—Letter from Artemisia to Cloe, Line 51 from end.

CONSCIENCE.—Thus 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 enterprizes of great pith and moment,
With this regard, their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 1. (His Soliloquy.)

Trust that man in nothing, who has not a conscience in every thing.

Sterne.—Tristram Shandy, Vol. II. Chap. XVII. and Sermon 27.

CONSENT.—My consent goes not that way.

Shakespeare.—Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III. Scene 2. (Page to Hostess.)

Let him light his pipe with his consent if he pleases. Wilful against Wise for a wager.

Colley Cibber.—The Non-Juror, Act I. Scene 1.

CONSIDERATION.—What you have said,
I will consider; what you have to say,
I will with patience hear: and find a time
Both meet to hear and answer.

Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act I. Scene 2. (Brutus to Cassius.)