Quotations Page With 'C'

Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay,Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.

- Shakespeare, Hamlet V -

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He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.

- Porteus -

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Love frees all toils but one,Calamity and it can ill agree.

- Beaumont and Fletcher, The Laws of Candy -

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Calm appears when storms are past;Love will have its hour at last.

- Dryden, The Secular Mask -

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Be thou as chaste as ice, as pur snow, thou shall not escape calumny.Calumny will sear Virtue itself.

- Shakespeare, Winter's Tale -

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Cutting honest throats by whisper.

- Scott -

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Calvinism is a democratic and republican religion.

- Be Tocqueville -

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Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel but on a candlestick, an it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

- New Testament, Mathew V -

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Unto the end shall charity endure.And candour hide those faults it cannot cure.

- Churchil, The Apology -

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I want that glib and oil art,To speak and purpose not.

- Shakespeare -

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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

- Johnson, Remark to Boswell -

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You may talk as other people do; you may say to a man, Sir, I am your most humble servant. You are not his most humble servant.

- Johnson, Letter to Lord Chesterfield -

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Capitalism production begets, with the inexorability of law of nature, its own negation.

- Carl Marx, Capital -

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The desert is imprisoned in the wall of its unbounded barrenness.

- Tagore, Fireflies -

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Every pack of cards is malicious libel on courts and on the world.

- Southey -

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See how the world its veteren reward;A youth of frolics, an old age of cards.

- Pope, Moral Essays -

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Care is not cure, but rather corrosive,For things that are not to be remedied.

- Henry VI -

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To carry care to bed, is to sleep with a pack on your back.

- Haliburton -

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Take my advice, and draw caricature. By the long practice of its have lost the enjoyment of beauty.

- Hagrath -

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