Quantum nobis nostrisque hæc fabula de Christo profuerit notum est—Every one knows what a godsend this story about Christ has been to us and our order. Pope Leo X.
Quantum quisque sua nummorum servat in arca / Tantum habet et fidei—The credit of every man is in proportion to the number of coins he keeps in his chest. Juv.
Quantum sufficit—As much as is sufficient. 30
Quarrelling with occasion. Mer. of Venice, iii. 5.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. La Roche.
Qué es la vida? Un frenesi. / Qué es la vida? Una ilusión. / Una sombra, una ficcion, / Y el mayor bien es pequeño; / Que toda la vida es sueño, / Y los sueños, sueños son!—What is life? A conceit of the fancy. What is life? An illusion, / a shadow, a fiction, and the greatest earthly possession insignificant; the whole of life nothing but a dream, and dreams are shadows. Calderon.
Que j'aime la hardiesse anglaise! que j'aime les gens qui disent ce qu'ils pensent—How I like the boldness of the English; how I like the people who say what they think! Voltaire.
Que la Suisse soit libre, et que nos noms périssent!—Let 35 Switzerland be free and our names perish! Lemierre.
Que les gens de l'esprit sont bêtes—What silly people wits are! Beaumarchais.
Que mon nom soit flétri—(So be the cause triumphs) let my name be blighted. Fr.