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

Dismiss your vows, your feigned tears, your flattery; / For where a heart is hard, they make no battery. Shakespeare.

Disobedience is the beginning of evil and the broad way to ruin. D. Davies.

Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an 30 antiquary's study, not; the black stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but the dirty face of a housemaid is. Ruskin.

Disorder is dissolution, death. Carlyle.

Disorder makes nothing at all, but unmakes everything. Prof. Blackie.

Disponendo me, non mutando me—By displacing, not by changing me. M.

Disputandi pruritus ecclesiarum scabies—The itch for controversy is the scab of the Church. Wotton.

Dissensions, like small streams at first begun, / 35 Unseen they rise, but gather as they run. Garth.

Dissimulation in youth is the forerunner of perfidy in old age. Blair.

Dissimulation is but faint policy, for it asketh a strong wit and a strong heart to know when to tell the truth and to do it. Bacon.