Constancy Quotes

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me. (George Bernard Shaw)
Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world. View quote
Joseph Addison
Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. View quote
Thomas Browne
The secret of success is constancy of purpose. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy. View quote
Michael Shermer
In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy. View quote
Montesquieu
By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression. View quote
Edmund Burke
If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good. View quote
Epictetus
That in affairs of very considerable importance men should deal with one another with satisfaction of mind, and mutual confidence, they must receive competent assurances concerning the integrity, fidelity, and constancy each of other. View quote
Isaac Barrow
The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It's as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California. (John Steinbeck)
The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they took as witness for their constancy a sky that is not the same for a single instant; everything changed in them and around them, and they believed their hearts free of vicissitudes. O children! always children! View quote
Denis Diderot
The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness. View quote
André Gide
The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
It is the fashion to talk of our changing climate and bewail the hot summers and hard winters of tradition, but how seldom we pause to marvel at the remarkable constancy of the weather from year to year. View quote
Flora Thompson
As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that's false Before you trust in critics. View quote
Lord Byron
Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times. View quote
Federica Montseny
Trust is not simply a matter of truthfulness, or even constancy. It is also a matter of amity and goodwill. We trust those who have our best interests at heart, and mistrust those who seem deaf to our concerns. View quote
Gary Hamel
I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life. (Maria Bello)
I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child. View quote
Sarah Fielding
The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs. View quote
Felix Frankfurter
He that will deserve the name of a Christian must be such a man as excelleth through the knowledge of Christ and His doctrine; in modesty and righteousness of mind, in constancy of life, in virtuous fortitude, and in maintaining sincere piety toward the one and the only God, who is all in all. View quote
Eusebius of Caesarea
For in a world so mutable and blind it's often constancy to change one's mind. View quote
Torquato Tasso