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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Constancy |
| Through perils both of wind and limb, Through thick and thin she follow’d him. Butler—Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto II. L. 369. | 1 |
| ’Tis often constancy to change the mind. Hoole—Metastasio. Sieves. | 2 |
| Changeless march the stars above, Changeless morn succeeds to even; And the everlasting hills, Changeless watch the changeless heaven. Charles Kingsley—Saint’s Tragedy. Act II. Sc. 2. | 3 |
| Abra was ready ere I call’d her name; And, though I call’d another, Abra came. Prior—Solomon on the Vanity of the World. Bk. II. L. 364. | 4 |
| Now from head to foot I am marble-constant: now the fleeting moon No planet is of mine. Antony and Cleopatra. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 238. | 5 |
| O constancy, be strong upon my side, Set a huge mountain ’tween my heart and tongue! I have a man’s mind, but a woman’s might. Julius Cæsar. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 7. | 6 |
| I could be well moved if I were as you; If I could pray to move, prayers would move me; But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true fix’d and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament. Julius Cæsar. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 58. | 7 |
| He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven, And fire us hence like foxes. King Lear. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 22. | 8 |
| Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore; To one thing constant never. Much Ado About Nothing. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 64. See also Thos. Percy—The Friar of Orders Gray. | 9 |
| If ever thou shalt love, In the sweet pangs of it remember me; For such as I am all true lovers are; Unstaid and skittish in all motions else, Save in the constant image of the creature That is belov’d. Twelfth Night. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 15. | 10 |
| I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything and their intent everywhere; for that’s it that always makes a good voyage of nothing. Twelfth Night. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 77. | 11 |
| O heaven! were man But constant, he were perfect. That one error Fills him with faults; makes him run through all the sins: Inconstancy falls off ere it begins. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act V. Sc. 4. L. 109. | 12 |
| Through thick and thin, both over banck and bush, In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke. Spenser—Faerie Queene. Bk. III. Canto I. St. 17. | 13 |
| Out upon it! I have lov’d Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather. Sir John Suckling—Constancy. | 14 |
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