Constancy

Constancy is the quality of being constant; steadiness or faithfulness in action, affections, purpose, and so forth. It indicates an unchanging quality or characteristic of a person or thing. It is the opposite of inconstancy.

Quotes

 * Through perils both of wind and limb, Through thick and thin she follow'd him.
 * Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto II, line 369.


 * Changeless march the stars above, Changeless morn succeeds to even; And the everlasting hills, Changeless watch the changeless heaven.
 * Charles Kingsley, Saint's Tragedy (1848), Act II, scene 2.


 * Now from head to foot I am marble-constant: now the fleeting moon No planet is of mine.
 * William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act V, scene 2, line 238.


 * O constancy, be strong upon my side, Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue! I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.
 * William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act II, scene 4, line 7.


 * I could be well moved if I were as you; If I could pray to move, prayers would move me; But I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true fix'd and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.
 * William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar (1599), Act III, scene 1, line 58.


 * He that parts us shall bring a brand from heaven, And fire us hence like foxes.
 * William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act V, scene 3, line 22.


 * Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea and one on shore;  To one thing constant never.
 * William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act II, scene 3, line 64. See also Thomas Percy—The Friar of Orders Gray.


 * If ever thou shalt love, In the sweet pangs of it remember me; For such as I am all true lovers are; Unstaid and skittish in all motions else, Save in the constant image of the creature That is belov'd.
 * William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act II, scene 4, line 15.


 * I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything and their intent everywhere; for that's it that always makes a good voyage of nothing.
 * William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (c. 1601-02), Act II, scene 4, line 77.


 * O heaven! were man But constant, he were perfect. That one error Fills him with faults; makes him run through all the sins: Inconstancy falls off ere it begins.
 * William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590s), Act V, scene 4, line 109.


 * Through thick and thin, both over banck and bush, In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke.
 * Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1589-96), Book III, Canto I, Stanza 17.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

 * Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 132-33.


 * 'Tis often constancy to change the mind.
 * John Hoole, Metastasio, Sieves.


 * Abra was ready ere I call'd her name; And, though I call'd another, Abra came.
 * Matthew Prior, Solomon on the Vanity of the World, Book II, line 364.


 * Out upon it! I have lov'd Three whole days together; And am like to love three more,  If it prove fair weather.
 * Sir John Suckling, Constancy.