Quotes About Constancy

Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

A wit should be no more sincere than a woman constant.

The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference now to one, now to another.

As we grow older together, As we continue to change with age, There is one thing that will never change. . . I will always keep falling in love with you

but you do not think much about the stars. They are always there. Look at them when you have a moment.

You know what the best part of the stars is?" "What's that?" "They're the same no matter what sky you're standing under. I mean...yeah, they might move or look like they're in a different place, but they're the same stars." "Yeah? So?" "So even if you're apart from someone you want to be with, you can look up at the stars and know they're looking at the same ones.

Some things change. And some things don't.

am caught in such a net of ties here." Again she almost revealed her secret: "if ever you know of my life here, I think you will only wonder at the constancy with which I have sustained myself." But she would not. "Meanwhile, love me all you can; let me feel, that, amid the fearful agitations of the world, there are pure hands, with healthful, even pulse, stretched out toward me, if I claim their grasp.

Indeed, if there was one emotion that the mountains evoked as he grew older, it was humility. Looming peaks would always provide a welcome dash of the unknown, but more and more the mountains comforted Bridger for their timeless constancy, their steady presence, an anchor against the decades. They made him feel small, reminded him he was small, reminded some others who needed the reminding.

Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.

Obstinacy is the sister of constancy, at least in vigor and stability.

Schopenhauer's work is a school of morality which instils into the reader the qualities of honesty, serenity and constancy which characterize its author; it is also, according to Nietzsche, a lesson in style (because morality and style are two sides of the same coin):

I was thinking that maybe when everything around you changed all the time, it was nice to know that something would always be the same.

When I was a schoolboy,' he said, more calmly, 'we had a prayer about being careful not to mistake bluntness for frankness, and obstinacy, I think it was, for constancy. You know, Percy, I have always respected your principles, but you must face the fact that we all have to make compromises in this life if we are to live amicably together. All I am doing is to show you how willing we are to settle things for the best. Even hares and hounds have to shake down in the same world.

Hij bleef zoals hij is, zwart en stil en besprenkeld met sterren.

The sun does not set, nor rises, the sun is fixed at one single point.

The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

Before his mistress a lover was prostrate, wounded to death by her beauty, killed by her disdain, obliged to an illimitable constancy, marked out for her dangerous service. A smile from her was in theory a gracious reward for twenty years of painful adoration.

I do not like inconsistent! Why must it be so?

Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life."