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

Disguise our bondage as we will, / 'Tis woman, woman rules us still. Moore.

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery, thou art a bitter draught. Sterne.

Dishonesty is the forsaking of permanent for 20 temporary advantages. Bovee.

Dishonest men conceal their faults from themselves as well as others; honest men know and confess them. Bovee.

Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. Dickens.

Dishonour waits on perfidy. The villain / Should blush to think a falsehood; 'tis the crime / Of cowards. C. Johnson.

Disillusion is the chief characteristic of old age.

Disjecta membra—Scattered remains. 25

Disjecti membra poetæ—Limbs of the dismembered poet. Hor.

Disjice compositam pacem, sere crimina belli—Dash the patched-up peace, sow the seeds of wicked war. Virg.