logo

Quotes About Confound

The law may upset reason but reason may never upset the law, or our whole society will shred like an old tatami. The law may be used to confound reason, reason must certainly not be used to overthrow the law.
~ James Clavell
God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.
~ Aeschylus
To paraphrase Paul, God often uses the cheesy to confound the sophisticated. He regularly honors those who are confused about his leading as if they have nailed it.
~ Mark Galli
Confound these ancestors... They've stolen our best ideas!
~ Ben Jonson
I'll betide thee, say I, and may the Gods, or at least the Athenians, confound thee for a vile citizen and a vile third-rate actor! Read the evidence.
~ Demosthenes
When all else fails, complicate matters.
~ Aaron Allston
Once a teen has been identified as part of the 'target market,' he knows he's done for. The object of the game is to confound the marketers, and keep one's own, authentic culture from showing up at the shopping mall as a prepackaged corporate product.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries.
~ Henry Wotton
God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
The foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called, but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the
~ Madeleine L'Engle
grammar in learning is like tyranny in government - confound the bitch I'll never be her slave.
~ John Clare
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
~ William Wycherley
This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. It is possible that they may be among those who understand my "Zarathustra": how could I confound myself with those who are now sprouting ears?—First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are born posthumously.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The way I stand and my posture really complicates my opponents; they don't understand it and don't know what to do about. The way I stand there in front of them really throws them off.
~ Lyoto Machida
It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Ath. I will confound his sense although he see.
~ Sophocles
There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty. …
~ Ellery Queen
Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
~ Francis of Assisi
When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.
~ Mark Twain
You can and should use logic and reason all you want. But it would be a great mistake to ignore the stray bit of data that doesn't fit into your preconceived theories, that may even confound everything you thought you were sure of.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to prove... that nothing is explained in the mysteries which surround us.
~ Joris-Karl Huysmans