C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Come, even if you have broken your vow one thousand times, come, yet again, come, come.”
“Come, evening, once again, season of peace;
Return, sweet evening, and continue long!
Methinks I see thee in the streaky west,
With matron step, slow moving, while the night
Treads on thy sweeping train; one hand employ'd
In letting fall the curtain of repose
On bird and beast, the other charged for man
With sweet oblivion of the cares of day.”
Source: Poems ... With an introductory essay by James Montgomery. [With plates.]
“Come, every frustum longs to be a cone, And every vector dreams of matrices. Hark to the gentle gradient of the breeze: It whispers of a more ergodic zone.”
Source: The Cyberiad
“Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To fly-and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.”
Source: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
“Come, fix upon me that accusing eye.
I thirst for accusation. All that was sung.
All that was said in Ireland is a lie
Breed out of the contagion of the throng,
Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die.”
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
“Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.”
“Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly.”
“Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand: bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.”
“Come, Friend, you too must die. Why moan about it so? Even Patroclus died, a far, far better man than you. And look, you see how handsome and powerful I am? The son of a great man, the mother who gave me life-- A deathless goddess. But even for me, I tell you, Death and the strong force of fate are waiting. There will come a dawn or sunset or high noon When a man will take my life in battle too-- flinging a spear perhaps Or whipping a deadly arrow off his bow.”
“Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.”
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor
“Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so,
Not what is dangerous present, but the los
Of what is past.”
Source: Three Classical Tragedies
“Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear, who fret to find our bedtime near.”
Source: The Complete Alice in Wonderland
“Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill:
For there the mystical brotherhood
Of sun and moon and hollow and wood
And river and stream work out their will.”
Source: Later Poems
“Come, I come! ye have called me long,
I come o'er the mountain with light and song:
Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth,
By the winds which tell of the violet's birth,
By the primrose-stars in the shadowy grass,
By the green leaves, opening as I pass.”
Source: Poetical works
“Come, Lady, die to live.”
Source: The plays: of William Shakespeare, in eight volumes, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators; to which are added notes by Sam. Johnson
“Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!”
“Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children.”
“Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.”
“Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to _ n, Commingled in an endless Markov chain!”
Source: The Cyberiad
“Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.”
Source: The Chosen
“Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I,
Seeing that our footing on the Earth is brief-
Seeing that her multitudes sweep out to die
Mocking at all that passes their belief.”
Source: Deirdre Wed and Other Poems
“Come, let us make love deathless.”
“Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. (excerpt from 'The Garrett')”
“Come, let us sing a psalm, and drive away the devil.”
“Come, let us take a lesson from our forefathers, and enjoy the Christmas holyday.”
“Come, let's be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with.”
Source: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ... With a Frontispiece from a Painting by T. Webster
“Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.”
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857
“Come, live with me and you'll know me.”
Source: The Four Loves
“Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing.”
“Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well. So up you get! Come on, Mr. Frodo dear! Sam will give you a ride. Just tell him where to go, and he'll go”
Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
“Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.”
Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume
“Come, my best Friends! my Books! and lead me on.”
“Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good will sever; Spend not then his gifts in vain: Suns that set may rise again; But if once we lose this light, 'Tis with us perpetual night. Why should we defer our joys? Fame and rumour are but toys.”
“Come, my child," I said, trying to lead her away. "Wish good-bye to the poor hare, and come and look for blackberries." "Good-bye, poor hare!" Sylvie obediently repeated, looking over her shoulder at it as we turned away. And then, all in a moment, her self-command gave way. Pulling her hand out of mine, she ran back to where the dead hare was lying, and flung herself down at its side in such an agony of grief as I could hardly have believed possible in so young a child. "Oh, my darling, my darling!" she moaned, over and over again. "And God meant your life to be so beautiful!”
Source: Sylvie and Bruno
“Come, my friends Tis not too late to seek a newer world Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die”
“Come, my Lady Dangerous, your Daimons await. (Valerius)”
Source: Seize The Night
“Come, my love, we have oceans to sail.”
“Come, my pretender, my fritter,
my bubbler, my chicken biddy!
Oh succulent one,
it is but one turn in the road
and I would be a cannibal!”
“Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life:
Such a Way as gives us breath:
Such a Truth as ends all strife:
Such a Life as killeth death.”
“Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited with Introductions, Notes and an Essay on Milton's English by David Masson
“Come, see the true flowers of this pained world.”
“Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:
every success depends upon focusing the heart.”
“Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do rouse.”
“Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face.”
Source: The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher
“Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: With a Life of the Poet, and Notes, Original and Selected; Together with a Copious Glossary
“Come, then, affliction, if my Father wills, and be my frowning friend. A friend that frowns is better than a smiling enemy.”
“Come, then, let us go forward together with our united strength - and win a better future for generations to come.”
“Come, then," returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be morose? You're rich enough.”
Source: A Christmas Carol
“Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!”
Source: The Scarlet Letter - Second Edition: A Romance
“Come, thou long expected Jesus, born to set thy people free; from our fears and sins release us; let us find our rest in thee. Israel's strength and consolation, hope of all the earth thou art, dear desire of every nation, joy of every longing heart.”
Source: Charles Wesley seen in his finer and less familiar poems. [A collection of his poems edited by F. M. Bird.]