Chapter CUP to CYPHER of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

CUP to CYPHER

CUP.—The iron cup chained for the general use.

Rogers.—Inscription in the Crimea.

The cups
That cheer but not inebriate.

Cowper.—Winter Evening, Book IV.

[In an essay on the excellences of Tar Water, Bishop Berkeley says, “It emulates the virtues of that famous plant Gin Seng, so much valued in China as the only cordial that raises the spirits without depressing them.” See his Siris, Vol. II. Division 66.—The effect of all wines and spirits upon me is strange. It settles, but it makes me gloomy.—Byron, Diary 1821.

CUR.—O, ’tis a foul thing when a cur cannot keep himself in all companies!

Shakespeare.—Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act IV. Scene 4. (Launce with his dog.)

CURB.—Curb this cruel devil of his will.

Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act IV. Scene 1. (Bassanio to Portia.)

CURFEW.—The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Gray.—Elegy, Verse 1.

CURIOSITY.—Let us satisfy our eyes
With the memorials, and the things of fame,
That do renown this city.

Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act III. Scene 3. (Sebastian to Antonio.)

CURIOSITY.—I will bespeak our diet,
Whiles you beguile the time and feed your knowledge
With viewing of the town.

Shakespeare.—Ibid. (Antonio to Sebastian.)

CUSTOM.—The breach of custom
Is breach of all.

Shakespeare.—Cymbeline, Act IV. Scene 2. (Imogen to Guiderius.)

Custom calls me to ’t;—
What custom wills, in all things should we do ’t?

Shakespeare.—Coriolanus, Act II. Scene 3. (Solus.)

It is a custom,
More honour’d in the breach than the observance.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 4. (Hamlet to Horatio.)

New customs,
Though they be never so ridiculous,
Nay, let them be unmanly, yet are follow’d.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII. Act I. Scene 3. (Sands to the Chamberlain.)

CUT.—Can ready compliments supply,
On all occasions cut and dry.

Swift.—Furniture of Woman’s Mind.

Jokes of all kinds, ready cut and dry.