Confound Quotes

67 quotes by 65 authors

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house. — Aeschylus
And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know… — Geraldine Brooks
Life may unfold chronologically for the body and for bureaucracies that keep track of such things as births, marriages, deaths, visas, tax returns, expulsions, and… — Ariel Dorfman
Tell the truth so as to puzzle and confound your adversaries. — Henry Wotton
Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality,… — Sofia Kovalevskaya
A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as… — William Hazlitt
Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another out, and a body may… — Nick Harkaway
Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly depicts the ways we confound… — David Bezmozgis
The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To… — Plautus
I undertake my scientific research with the confident assumption that the earth follows the laws of nature which God established at creation. ... My studies… — James W. Skehan
Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or… — Samuel Johnson
God, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we are at the same time… — Baron d'Holbach
You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art. — Kit Williams
Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her. — John Millington Synge
Every Christian leader should have this engraved in his subconscious. No matter what you do, never take yourself too seriously God always chooses the foolish… — K.P. Yohannan
And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation. — John Hookham Frere
People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action... — Moshe Feldenkrais
When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness. — William Shakespeare
What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or baffle us or… — Steven Pinker
Yes, God uses the uneducated to confound the wise. But that doesn't make ignorance a virtue. — Andy Stanley

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