John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Censure is the tax eminent men pay, 291. from a foe, 339. mouths of wisest, 152. take each man’s, 130. |
| Cent, not one, for tribute, 861. |
| Cents, minutes to be dollars and, 586. |
| Central fire, sparks from the, 785. heart nestles the seed, in its, 742. |
| Centre, faith has, everywhere, 674. of the unfathomed, 585. |
| Centric and eccentric, 237. |
| Centuries ago, in the solemn midnight, 699. every man has all the, in him, 812. looked forward through, 788. nor sequent, hit, 616. of sonnets, 706. slaves of, 771. the weight of, 833. |
| Century for a reader, wait a, 858. |
| Cerberus, not like, 440. |
| Cerements, burst their, 130. the Christ, rises from dead, 788. |
| Ceremonial religion, stronghold of, 634. |
| Ceremony, enforced, 114. that to great ones ’longs, 47. to all, death is, 89. certain as a gun, 211. guests of state, 774. the future is, how, 742. unsoundness of mind, 600. winds will make men’s temper, 729. |
| Certainty for an uncertainty, 369. of waking bliss, 244. to please, 455. |
| Certum est, quia impossible est, 942. |
| Cervantes smiled Spain’s chivalry away, 560. |
| Cervantes’ serious air, 330. |
| Cessation to the pain of thought, 786. |
| Chaff, catch old birds with, 973. hope corn in, 539. two bushels of, 60. |
| Chaff-threshing churl, 976. |
| Chain, death broke the vital, 367. drags a lengthening, 394. hanging in a golden, 230. Homer’s golden, 191. hour with beauty’s, 525. joy so seldom weaves a, 520. of all virtues, 182. slumbers, 523. striking the electric, 545. to sport with beauty’s, 525. |
| Chains, a race that binds its body in, 817. and slavery, price of, 430. at curfew time, 245. bound in those icy, 184. stagnant in, 525. untwisting all the, 249. wearers of rings and, 511. |
| Chainless hands, honest hearts and, 579. |
| Chair, my little one’s, 733. one vacant, 641. |
| Chair, rack of a too easy, 332. Tully’s curule, 391. |
| Chairs and half a candle, two old, 703. |
| Chalice, our poisoned, 118. wingèd, 770. |
| Chaliced flowers, 159. |
| Challenge double pity, 25. life that dares send a, 258. |
| Challenged, seen him damned ere I would have, 76. |
| Chamber, come to the bridal, 562. get you to my lady’s, 144. in a lady’s, 95. in the silent halls of death, 572. where the good man meets his fate, 307. |
| Chambers, King’s Bench, 297. whisper softness in, 254. |
| Champagne and a chicken, 350. |
| Champion cased in adamant, 484. of the truth, 814. the world still needs its, 786. thou fortune’s, 79. waiting in his place, our, 650. |
| Champions fierce, four, 229. |
| Chance, all, direction, 316. and temperament, result of, 791. await no gifts from, 754. by happy, we saw, 481. cannot touch me, 857. comes from art, not, 324. decides fate of monarchs, 356. erring men call, 245. main, 93, 214. may crown me, 116. now and then be right by, 414. or death, nativity, 46. set my life on any, 121. skirts of happy, 675. that, will bring us through, 754. to show it, if you’ve not a, 866. will have me king, if, 116. wisdom controlled by, 964. |
| Chances for a happy change, 884. most disastrous, 150. upon the thousand, 579. |
| Chancellor in embryo, 380. |
| Chancellor’s conscience, 195. encyclopedic mind, 604. foot, 195. |
| Chancery, up to heaven’s, 379. |
| Change, all things, 832. and such a, 544. be no robbery, 17. came o’er my dream, 553. can give no more, 859. everything is the result of a, 938. fear of, perplexes monarchs, 225. for worse pray gods, 25. heavy, oh the, 247. lays not her hand upon truth, 806. nature loves so well to, 938. of fierce extremes, 228. of many-coloured life, each, 366. old love for new, 25. ringing grooves of, 669. seasons and their, 233. studious of, 417. |
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