#Constancy Quotes

“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 elseSave in the constant image of the creatureThat is beloved.”

“O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable”

“But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.”

“Still constant is a wondrous excellence.”

“No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.”

“A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curl'd pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon, — for it shines bright, and never changes, but keeps his course truly.”

“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.”

“Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments. Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove:O no! it is an ever-fixed markThat looks on tempests and is never shaken;It is the star to every wandering bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeksWithin his bending sickle's compass come:Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,But bears it out even to the edge of doom.If this be error and upon me proved,I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”

“To me, fair friend, you never can be old,For as you were when first your eye I eyed,Such seems your beauty still. Three winters coldHave from the forests shook three summers' pride,Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'dIn process of the seasons have I seen,Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.”

“Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. Then your love would also change.”

“Then happy I that love and am beloved, where I may not remove nor be removed.”

“Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.”

“Love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds,Or bends with the remover to remove.O, no! It is an ever-fixed mark,That looks on tempests and is never shaken.It is the star to every wandering bark,Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.”

“The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.”

“Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”

“These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.”

“Let me not to the marriage of true mindsAdmit impediments: love is not loveWhich alters when it alteration finds.”

“As true as steel, as plantage to the moon,As sun to day, at turtle to her mate,As iron to adamant, as earth to centre.”

“The four Cs as secret of my success-curiosity, confidence,courage and constancy.”

“The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C's.They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.”

“Long and long has the grass been growing,Long and long has the rain been falling,Long has the globe been rolling round.”

“The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition.”

“Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same”

“No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.”

“Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.”

“But as to the affection which anyone may have for us, it is the first demand of duty that we do most for him who loves us most; but we should measure affection, not like youngsters, by the ardour of its passion, but rather by its strength and constancy.”

“There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.”

“There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.”

“Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.”

“Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.”

“True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.”

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.”

“Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object.”

“Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.”

“There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from our making a merit of being constant.”

“The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.”

“The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.”

“Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour affections continually; the other is only from a point of honor, and a taking of pride not to change.”

“The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.”

“The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be.”

“Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?”

“There lives at least one being who can never change-one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness-who lives but in your eyes-who breathes but in your smiles-who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you.”

“A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me.”

“... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God!”

“Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.”

“All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.”