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

Confine your tongue, lest it confine you. Pr. 25

Confrère—A brother monk or associate. Fr.

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. / Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope / The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence / The life o' the building. Macb., ii. 1.

Confusion worse confounded. Milton.

Congé d'élire—A leave to elect. Fr.

Con poco cervello si governa il mondo—The 30 world is governed with small wit. It. Pr.

Conquer we shall, but we must first contend; / 'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end. Herrick.

Conscia mens recti famæ mendacia risit—The mind conscious of integrity ever scorns the lies of rumour. Ovid.

Conscience does make cowards of us all; / And thus the native hue of resolution / Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; / And enterprises of great pith and moment, / With this regard, their currents turn awry, / And lose the name of action. Ham., iii. 1.

Conscience is but a word that cowards use, / Devised at first to keep the strong in awe; / Our strong arms be our conscience, swords our law. Rich. III., v. 3.