Chapter CUP to CYPHER of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Microcosm.—Vol. I. No. VIII. Page 68.

According to her cloth she cut her coat.

Dryden.—Cock and the Fox.

This was the most unkindest cut of all.

Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act III. Scene 2. (Anthony to the Citizens.)

CYNOSURE.—Where perhaps some Beauty lies,
The Cynosure of neighbouring eyes.

Milton.—L’Allegro, Line 79.

CYPHER.—The Whigs are a parcel of cyphers, and I am the only unit that gives a value to them.

Lord Brougham.

CYPHER.—Here’s another of your cyphers to fill up the number:
Oh brave old ape in a silken coat!

Forde.—’Tis Pity, Act I.