Confound Quotes

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When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends. — Mark Twain
To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too… — Francis Bacon
Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively… — Iain Banks
Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you… — George Eliot
A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An act of high… — Tim O'Brien
This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare,… — Terry Tempest Williams
I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first. — Daniel Defoe
It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody… — Truman Capote
Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him. — Nancy Springer
What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated… — Ben Okri
Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language. — David Levithan
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man. — Nikolai Gogol
Gandalf: Confound it all, Samwise Gamgee. Have you been eavesdropping? Sam: I ain't been droppin' no eaves sir, honest. I was just cutting the grass… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Oh confound that gray-and-scarlet suit!" Sophie said. "I refuse to believe that I was the one that got caught with it! — Diana Wynne Jones
It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery. The most commonplace crime is often the most mysterious because it presents no new or special… — Arthur Conan Doyle
God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound… — Madeleine L'Engle
George Bush, within a week of this [the 9/11 attacks], in a speech, attempting to distinguish US from the Muslim fundamentalists, said Our God is… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the… — Orson F. Whitney
Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. — Lord Byron

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