Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Compound for sins they are inclined to / By damning those they have no mind to. Butler.

Comprendre c'est pardonner—To understand is to pardon. Mad. de Staël.

Compte rendu—Report, return. Fr.

Con agua pasada no muele molino—The mill grinds no corn with water that has passed. Sp. Pr.

Con amore—With love; earnestly. It.

Con arte e con inganno si vive mezzo l'anno; con inganno si vive l'altra parte—People live with art and deception one half the year, and with deception and art the other half. It. Pr.

Conceal not the meanness of thy family, nor think it disgraceful to be descended from peasants; for when it is seen thou art not thyself ashamed, no one will endeavour to make thee so. Cervantes.

Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. Ham., iii. 4.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up. Ruskin.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs. Emerson.