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He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven And fire us hence like foxes. - William Shakespeare, King Lear (King Lear at V, iii) Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more! Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea, and one on shore; To one thing constant never. - William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Balthasar at II, ii) O heaven, were man But constant, he were perfect! That one error Fills him with faults, makes him run through all th' sins; Inconstancy falls off ere it begins. - William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Proteus at V, iv) I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere; for that's it that always makes a good voyage of nothing. - William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Clown at II, iv) If ever thou shalt love, In the sweet pangs of it remember me; For such as I am all true lovers are, Unstaid and skittish in all motions else Save in the constant image of the creature That is beloved. - William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Orsino, Duke of Illyria at II, iv) The lasting and crowning privilege of friendship is constancy. - Bishop Robert South Through thick and thin, both over banck and bush, In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke. - Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (bk. III, canto I, st. 17) Out upon it! I have lov'd Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather. - Sir John Suckling, Constancy Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had better die at once. A great poet has truly declared that constancy is no virtue, but a fact. - Henry Theodore Tuckerman Constancy is the chimera of love. - Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues The love that is kept in the beauty of trust, Cannot pass like the foam from the seas, Or a mark that the finger hath trac'd in the dust, Where 't is swept by the breath of the breeze. - Mrs. Amelia Ball Welby (nee Coppuck) -----I have won Thy heart, my gentle girl! but it hath been When that soft eye was on me; and the love I told beneath the evening influence, Shall be as constant as its gentle star. - Nathaniel Parker Willis Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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