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.

• 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.

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.

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