constancy quotes

Obstinacy in a bad cause, is but constancy in a good.

- SirThomas Browne
^5  Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section 25.

   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 on the brain. 226

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  'Christabel', pt.2.

Since 'tis nature's law to change, Constancyalone is strange.

-JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
'A Dialogue between Strephon and Daphne', l.31^2 (published 1691).

   Thosewhotalk most abouttheblessings of marriageand the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the claim were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would flyasunder.Youcan't havetheargument both ways.Ifthe prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

- George Bernard Shaw
  DonJuan to AnnWhitefield. Man and Superman, act 3.

Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth, And ever-changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
'To the Moon' (published1824).